Resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Major Reports

• Science, The Endless Frontier: A Report to the President, by Vannevar Bush (1945)
• General Education in a Free Society, Report of the Harvard Committee with an Introduction by James Bryant Conant (1950)
• One Great Society: Humane Learning in the United States, by Howard Mumford Jones (1959)
• Report of the Commission on the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Council on Graduate Schools in the United States, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa (1964)
• The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation (1980)
• A Report to Congress on the State of the Humanities and the Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies (1985)
• What’s Happened to the Humanities? ed., Alvin Kernan (1997)
• Reinvigorating the Humanities: Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond, Association of American Universities (2004)
• Our Cultural Commonwealth, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies (2006)
• Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine (2007)
• ARISE: Advancing Research in Science and Engineering. Investing in Early-Career Scientists and High-Risk, High-Reward Research, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
• Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine (2010)
• The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States, Commission on the Future of Graduate Education in the United States, Council on Graduate Schools and Educational Testing Service (2010)
• Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council (2012)

Governmental Organizations

• Corporation for National & Community Service
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Gallery of Art
• National Institutes of Health
• National Park Service
• National Science Foundation
• The Library of Congress

National Organizations

• Academy of American Poets
• American Council on Education
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Association of American Universities
• Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
• Council of Independent Colleges
• National Governors Association
• National Humanities Center
• National Research Council
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

International Organizations

• Alliance for International Education and Cultural Exchange
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers
• Council for International Exchange of Scholars
• Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Institute of International Education
• International Research and Exchanges Board

Online Resources and Archives

• ACLS Humanities E-Book
• ARTstor
• American Library Association
• ALA Other Groups and Organizations
• Association of Research Libraries
• ARL Partners & Working Relationships
• Digital Library Federation
• Digital Public Library of America
• Independent Research Library Association
• New York Public Library
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center
• Online Library of Liberty
• Perseus Digital Library

Museums & Museum Associations

• American Association for State and Local History
• American Association of Museums
• Association of Art Museum Directors
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Museum of Modern Art
• Smithsonian Institution

Other Humanities Organizations & Associations

• American Academy of Religion
• American Council of Learned Societies
• ACLS Member Learned Societies
• American Historical Association
• AHA Links to Other Organizations
• American Political Science Association
• College Art Association
• Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
• Federation of State Humanities Councils
• Modern Language Association
• National Humanities Alliance
• The Linguistic Society of America

Social Sciences Resources

• American Academy of Political and Social Science
• American Economic Association
• American Political Science Association
• American Psychological Association
• American Sociological Association
• American Statistical Association
• Consortium of Social Science Associations
• National Council for the Social Studies
• Social Science Research Council

Collaborations

• Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center
• Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington
• Duke Global Health Institute
• National Human Genome Research Institute’s Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program
• UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics

Online Tool Kits

• National Endowment for the Humanities, EDSITEment! The Best of the Humanities on the Web
• National Humanities Center: America in Class
• National Science Foundation Classroom Resources
• iCivics
• Edutopia
• Teachinghistory.org
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Programs for Educators