Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference,
Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge, England, 13-15 June 2018
The 1960s saw the founding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the expansion and transformation of philanthropic spending priorities in the cultural arena, and also the exposure of covert CIA funding for a range of Cold War cultural projects, all against the backdrop of this contentious decade.
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