Institution: Rockefeller Foundation

In the aftermath, Foundation staff struggled to rectify their organization’s involvement with this weapon of mass destruction.

Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

Global war drew a new philanthropy into relief work.

Orson Welles’s 1938 radio performance of The War of the Worlds prompted a foundation to explore issues of media literacy and fake news.

Using new technology to save threatened world resources and keep free inquiry alive under threat of fascist destruction.

In honor of Women’s History Month, we highlight thirteen individuals from our collections to show the range of contributions women have made in the field of philanthropy and in the world at large.

Delving into a century of philanthropic engagement with race, from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era.

Against a backdrop of white, establishment concepts of literary excellence, one foundation struggled to appreciate Black voices.

What might appear to be a simple publication project came to fruition only after a decade of political upheaval, cultural repression, war, and Rockefeller Foundation support.

Applying a vast fortune to the American race problem, but with decades of false assumptions and well-intended approaches that fell short.