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WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 27, 2018)
— Join the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in celebrating reading
and the humanities on Saturday, September 1, at the 18th Library of
Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center
in Washington, DC. The event is free and open to the public.
Festival-goers will be able to:
- See an interactive
presentation of the NEH-funded educational video game Walden, a
game. Named one of 2017’s top educational tools by Common Sense
Education, Walden is an experiential first-person
game that has players following in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau during
his year at Walden Pond. The game’s designer, Tracy Fullerton, will demo the
game at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the festival’s Parade of States. Read
about Walden, a game at NEH’s HUMANITIES
magazine.
- Stop by the NEH booth in
the Parade of States to speak with NEH staff, pick up a copy of NEH’s HUMANITIES
magazine, and take selfies with life-sized cutouts of
Jane Austen, Frederick Douglass, Mary Shelley, and Alexander Hamilton.
While you’re there, learn about NEH’s EDSITEment
website for students and teachers, hear about upcoming NEH-funded documentaries
and exhibitions, and see copies of popular books on history, art history, film,
architecture, and literature funded through NEH’s Public Scholar program.
You can also take home posters featuring original
illustrations of Willa Cather or Frederick Douglass, or a Chronicling America
poster commemorating the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of
World War I. A partnership between NEH
and the Library of Congress, Chronicling America
is a searchable online database of historic U.S. newspapers.
- Visit with representatives
of one of twelve humanities council-based state centers for the book in the
Parade of States to learn about book festivals and literary programs in Colorado,
Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Kentucky.
Follow NEH on Twitter @NEHgov and
#NatBookFest for news about the book festival.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.
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