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25-415: Delbanco is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrew Delbanco (born 1952), American cultural critic Francesca Delbanco (born 1974), American novelist and screenwriter Miriam Del Banco (1858–1931), American poet and educator Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942), American writer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

50-541: A student committee at Columbia University. In 2001, he was named by Time magazine as "America's Best Social Critic." In 2006, he received the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. In 2012, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama for "his writings on higher education and the place classic authors hold in history and contemporary life." In October 2022, he delivered

75-528: A study of changing concepts of evil in American history. The Real American Dream (1999) is an essay on spiritual longing in American life. Melville: His World and Work (2005), a critical study cast in the form of biography, portrays Herman Melville as a uniquely inventive literary artist who combined the moral gravity of the New England tradition with the irreverent energy of a New York sensibility. The War Before

100-511: A wide variety of topics including the relationship between rock and roll and literature, humanities and the public good, and the role of the humanities in addressing climate change and environmental degradation . The center has also launched initiatives designed to demonstrate the value of the humanities in the lives of individuals from all walks of life and to promote a deeper understanding of, and more productive discourse around, public issues. The center's interactive Humanities Moments project

125-659: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Andrew Delbanco Andrew H. Delbanco (born 1952) is an American writer and professor. He is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and the president of the Teagle Foundation. He is the author of many books, including The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from

150-542: Is one of the ten members of the Some Institutes for Advanced Study consortium–which are modeled after the Princeton, New Jersey, Institute for Advanced Study The National Humanities Center offers dedicated programs in support of humanities scholarship and teaching as well as a regular schedule of public events, conferences and interactive initiatives to engage the public in special topics and emerging issues. Each year,

175-589: The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities , “the highest honor conferred by the federal government for intellectual achievement in the humanities.” National Humanities Center The center was planned under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , which saw a need for substantial support for academic research in the humanities, and began operations in 1978. The National Humanities Center

200-564: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , as well as the NHC's own reference facility. Since 1978, the NHC has hosted over 1,500 scholars who have published over 1,700 books. The National Humanities Center is distinctive among centers for advanced study in its commitment to linking scholarship to improved teaching. Programs developed at the NHC provide teachers with new materials and instructional strategies designed to make them more effective in

225-413: The surname Delbanco . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delbanco&oldid=1062422208 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

250-528: The Education Committee, which was instrumental in developing the center's work with high school teachers. Upon his appointment in 2018 to the presidency of the Teagle Foundation, he said that his aim was "to continue and deepen Teagle's support of people and programs committed to bringing the gift of liberal education to all students -- not just the privileged few". In 2015, Delbanco gave a mini-lecture on Moby-Dick while riding with Stephen Colbert on

275-540: The NHC admits approximately forty fellows chosen from among hundreds of applicants from institutions in the United States and abroad representing a broad range of disciplines. In addition, a few senior scholars are invited by the center's trustees to assume fellowships. The National Humanities Center has no permanent fellows or faculty. NHC fellows are given substantial support to pursue their individual research and writing projects. Interdisciplinary seminars provide fellows

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300-559: The NHC's online interactive curriculum enrichment service, supplements its training and primary source collections with essays by leading scholars, instructional activities, and links to online resources to enrich teachers' understanding of topics and suggest approaches for more effective classroom teaching. Recent initiatives from the Center include projects to improve teachers' subject knowledge on Vietnam , to help teachers use digital mapping technologies in classroom instruction, and to explore

325-548: The Nitro roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in New Jersey. In 1973 he married his college classmate Dawn Ho, who teaches art history at Columbia. They have two children and four grandchildren. Delbanco’s early work, The Puritan Ordeal (1989), approaches New England Puritanism as a religious movement seeking moral stability in the context of nascent capitalism.  In 1995 he published The Death of Satan ,

350-842: The Revolution to the Civil War (2018), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for "books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity", and the Mark Lynton History Prize , sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard , for a work "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression". Melville: His World and Work (2005)

375-598: The U.S.. Delbanco is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was vice president of PEN American Center from 1996 to 1999. In 2021 and 2022 he served as president of the Society of American Historians . Three of Delbanco's books ( The Puritan Ordeal , Melville , and The War Before the War ) received the annual Lionel Trilling Book Award bestowed by

400-481: The War (2018), a narrative account of how fugitives from slavery helped drive the nation to civil war, stresses the conflict between law and conscience in the minds of judges, writers, clergy, and politicians who tried to reconcile private conviction with public duty. Delbanco writes frequently about higher education. In a controversial article published in 1999 in The New York Review of Books , he attributed to

425-409: The classroom on a wide range of topics. Through its AmericaInClass.org site, the NHC allows participants to learn directly from leading scholars and access an extensive archive of primary source materials – arranged in online collections and accompanied with discussion questions and instructional planning guides for classroom use. The NHC makes these materials available without charge. TeacherServe,

450-516: The contemporary English department “the contradictory attributes of a religion in its late phase—a certain desperation to attract converts, combined with an evident lack of convinced belief in its own scriptures and traditions.” In subsequent articles, and in his book College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (2012), based on the Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton, he traced the origins, development, and current state of higher education in

475-433: The experience of military veterans through literature. The National Humanities Center hosts a variety of public events, both to stimulate public awareness of humanities scholarship and to address special topics. Events have included appearances by A. S. Byatt , Seymour Hersh , Michael Ignatieff , Oliver Sacks , Michael Pollan , Elaine Scarry , Wole Soyinka , Raymond Tallis , Wang Hui , and E. O. Wilson and addressed

500-674: The faculty of Columbia University , where, for twenty years, he held the Julian Clarence Levi Chair in the Humanities and, from 2005 to 2015, was the Mendelson Family Director of American Studies. He is the inaugural holder of the Alexander Hamilton Chair of American Studies, established at Columbia in 2015. While serving as a trustee of the National Humanities Center (1996-2006), he chaired

525-476: The humanities can contribute to public debate on questions of broad concern. Since 1978 the National Humanities Center has been led by six directors: Charles Frankel , William Bennett , Charles Blitzer, W. Robert Connor, Geoffrey G. Harpham , and current director Robert D. Newman . The NHC is governed by a distinguished board of trustees from academic, business, and public life and has included

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550-812: The opportunity to share insights and criticism. For the 2022–2023 academic year, NHC fellows' research topics include [speculative fiction] by and about Black women, the [Armenian genocide], the history of the [infodemic] phenomenon, and social revolt in early twentieth-century Latin America, as well as other subjects in the fields of African American studies; East Asian studies; education studies; environmental studies; gender and sexuality studies; history; history of art and architecture; Indigenous studies; languages and literature; Latinx studies; Middle East studies; music history and musicology; philosophy; religious studies; and Slavic studies. NHC fellows have library access at nearby Duke University , North Carolina State University , and

575-608: Was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in biography. He has written numerous essays on American history and literature, a selection of which appeared in Required Reading: Why the American Classics Matter Now (1997), as well as on U.S. higher education, in journals of culture and opinion, especially The New York Review of Books , The New Republic , and The Nation . Delbanco

600-660: Was born in White Plains , New York, the son of Jewish parents who fled from Germany to England before emigrating to the U.S. after the Second World War . He attended Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in English in 1973 from Harvard University , from which he also received his MA (1976) and PhD (1980). Delbanco taught at Harvard from 1981 to 1985 and since 1985 has been on

625-788: Was created in partnership with the Federation of State Humanities Councils in an effort to gather, store, and share personal accounts of how the humanities illuminate and transform the lives of individuals and thereby help "reimagine the way we think and talk about the humanities." Featuring news about the humanities and highlighting perspectives from leading humanists on compelling issues, the center also launched Humanities in Action in 2018 to help scholars, teachers, students, and other citizens "connect, learn more, and get involved" encouraging visitors to become better informed about issues affecting humanities research and education as well as to better appreciate how

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