Institution: American Council of Learned Societies

Building Global Understanding: Area Studies, Language, and History
Encouraging cross-cultural knowledge in an interconnected postwar world by shaping new interdisciplinary programs and retooling traditional academic fields.

“A Very Broad Field”: Building the Rockefeller Foundation’s Humanities Program
The Rockefeller Foundation evolved to bring the arts and humanities together, from classical archaeology to contemporary museums.

World War II & the Rockefeller Foundation
Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

Preserving Scholarship During World War II: the Rockefeller Foundation, Libraries, and Microphotography
Using new technology to save threatened world resources and keep free inquiry alive under threat of fascist destruction.