Chairs
- Barnaby Keeney, 1963–1965, chairman of National Commission on the Humanities
- Henry Allen Moe, 1965–66, interim chairman
- Barnaby Keeney, 1966–1970
- Wallace Edgerton, Acting Chairman, 1970–71
- Ronald Berman, 1971–1977
- Robert Kingston, Acting Chairman, 1977
- Joseph Duffey, 1977–81
- William J. Bennett, 1981–85
- John Agresto, Acting Chairman, 1985
- Lynne Cheney, 1986–1993
- Jerry L. Martin, Acting Chairman, 1993
- Donald Gibson, Acting Chairman, 1993
- Sheldon Hackney, 1993–97
- Bruce A. Lehman, Acting Chairman, 1997
- William R. Ferris, 1997–2001
- Bruce Cole, 2001-2009
- Carole M. Watson, Acting Chairman, 2009
- Jim Leach, 2009–Present
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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