National Humanities Medal

The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation?s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens? engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans? access to important resources in the humanities.

As Charles Frankel Prize

• Rita Dove (1996)
• Bill Moyers (1996)
• Doris Kearns Goodwin (1996)
• David McCullough (1995)
• Charles Kuralt (1995)
• Bernice Johnson Reagon (1995)
• Dorothy Porter Wesley (1994)
• Sharon Percy Rockefeller (1994)
• Hanna Gray (1993)
• Ricardo E. Alegría (1993)
• Laurel T. Ulrich (1993)
• John Hope Franklin (1993)
• Allan Bloom (1992)
• Eudora Welty (1992)
• Shelby Foote (1992)
• Ken Burns (1991)
• John Tchen (1991)
• Mortimer Adler (1990)
• Henry Hampton (1990)
• David Van Tassel (1990)
• Daniel Boorstin (1989)
• Américo Paredes (1989)