TY - JOUR TI - The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor: Foundation Funding for the Humanities, 1900-1983 AU - McCarthy, Kathleen D. T2 - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society AB - [Last paragraph:] The humanities won whatever legitimacy they have achieved within the funding community through a slow and arduous route. Regarded with condescension during the heyday of Progressive social activism, grantmaking in these fields was initially cast in a classical, and often highly personal mold. The need to bolster wartime research capabilities brought these fields closer to the center of the policymaking arena, drawing widespread foundation support for the first time. After a laggardly start, wartime imperatives finally knit the humanities into the traditional foundation/governmental policymaking alliance. After the war, the democratization of leisure and the need to enhance the nation's cultural image abroad gave the humanities added stature. Yet despite their growing appeal as objects of public and private largesse, the humanities continue to play a tenuous role on the grantmaking scene, eclipsed, as always, by pragmatic biases and changing political and social concerns. DA - 1985/// PY - 1985 DP - JSTOR VL - 129 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 8 LA - en SN - 0003-049X ST - The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/986974 DB - JSTOR Y2 - 2020/06/16/07:09:26 KW - Humanities KW - Humanities foundations KW - Humanities funding KW - Humanities government agencies KW - Humanities in United States KW - Humanities organizations ER -