National Humanities Medal - Recipients

Recipients

Medalists are listed by year, then alphabetically.

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2011

• Andrew Delbanco
• Amartya Sen - First non US recipient

2010

• Daniel Aaron (2010)
• Bernard Bailyn (2010)
• Jacques Barzun (2010)
• Wendell E. Berry (2010)
• Roberto González Echevarría (2010)
• Stanley Nider Katz (2010)
• Joyce Carol Oates (2010)
• Arnold Rampersad (2010)
• Philip Roth (2010)
• Gordon S. Wood (2010)

2009

• Robert A. Caro (2009)
• Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
• David Levering Lewis (2009)
• William H. McNeill (2009)
• Philippe de Montebello (2009)
• Albert H. Small (2009)
• Theodore C. Sorensen (2009)
• Elie Wiesel (2009)

2008

• Gabor Boritt (2008)
• Richard Brookhiser (2008)
• Harold Holzer (2008)
• Myron Magnet (2008)
• Albert Marrin (2008)
• Milton J. Rosenberg (2008)
• Thomas A. Saunders III (2008)
• Jordan Horner Saunders (2008)
• Robert H. Smith (2008)
• John Templeton Foundation (2008)
• Norman Rockwell Museum (2008)

2007

• Stephen H. Balch (2007)
• Russell Freedman (2007)
• Victor Davis Hanson (2007)
• Roger Hertog (2007)
• Cynthia Ozick (2007)
• Richard Pipes (2007)
• Pauline L. Schultz (2007)
• Henry Leonard Snyder (2007)
• Ruth Wisse (2007)
• "Monuments Men" Foundation for the Preservation of Art (2007)

2006

• Fouad Ajami (2006)
• James M. Buchanan (2006)
• Nickolas Davatzes (2006)
• Robert Fagles (2006)
• Mary Lefkowitz (2006)
• Bernard Lewis (2006)
• Mark Noll (2006)
• Meryle Secrest
• Kevin Starr (2006)
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (2006)

2005

• Walter Berns (2005)
• Matthew Bogdanos (2005)
• Eva Brann (2005)
• John Lewis Gaddis (2005)
• Richard Gilder (2005)
• Mary Ann Glendon (2005)
• Leigh Keno (2005)
• Leslie Keno (2005)
• Alan Charles Kors (2005)
• Lewis Lehrman (2005)
• Judith Martin (2005)
• The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia (2005)

2004

• Marva Collins (2004)
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (2004)
• Hilton Kramer (2004)
• Madeleine L'Engle (2004)
• Harvey Mansfield (2004)
• John Searle (2004)
• Shelby Steele (2004)
• United States Capitol Historical Society (2004)

2003

• Robert Ballard (2003)
• Joan Ganz Cooney (2003)
• Midge Decter (2003)
• Joseph Epstein (writer) (2003)
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (2003)
• Jean Fritz (2003)
• Hal Holbrook (2003)
• Edith Kurzweil (2003)
• Frank M. Snowden, Jr.(2003)
• John Updike (2003)

2002

• Frankie Hewitt (2002)
• Iowa Writers' Workshop (2002)
• Donald Kagan (2002)
• Brian Lamb (2002)
• Art Linkletter (2002)
• Patricia MacLachlan (2002)
• The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association (2002)
• Thomas Sowell (2002)

2001

• José Cisneros (2001)
• Robert Coles (2001)
• Sharon Darling (2001)
• William Manchester (2001)
• Richard Peck (2001)
• Eileen Jackson Southern (2001)
• Tom Wolfe (2001)
• National Trust for Historic Preservation (2001)

2000

• Robert N. Bellah (2000)
• Will D. Campbell (2000)
• Judy Crichton (2000)
• David C. Driskell (2000)
• Ernest Gaines (2000)
• Herman T. Guerrero (2000)
• Quincy Jones (2000)
• Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
• Edmund S. Morgan (2000)
• Toni Morrison (2000)
• Earl Shorris (2000)
• Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (2000)

1999

• Patricia Battin (1999)
• Taylor Branch (1999)
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (1999)
• Garrison Keillor (1999)
• Jim Lehrer (1999)
• John Rawls (1999)
• Steven Spielberg (1999)
• August Wilson (1999)

1998

• Stephen E. Ambrose (1998)
• E. L. Doctorow (1998)
• Diana L. Eck (1998)
• Nancye Brown Gaj (1998)
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1998)
• Vartan Gregorian (1998)
• Ramón Eduardo Ruiz (1998)
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1998)
• Garry Wills (1998)

1997

• Nina M. Archabal (1997)
• David A. Berry (1997)
• Richard Franke (1997)
• William Friday (1997)
• Don Henley (1997)
• Maxine Hong Kingston (1997)
• Luis Leal (1997)
• Martin Marty (1997)
• Paul Mellon (1997)
• Studs Terkel (1997)