“The Revolutionary Implications
of the Digital Humanities”
Ann Arbor, Michigan
December 2, 2011

“Re-Imagining the American Dream:
the Humanities and Citizenship”
St. Petersburg, Florida
November 5, 2011

“Humanities and Citizenship”
Washington, D.C.
October 28, 2011

“An Infrastructure of Ideas”
Washington, D.C.
October 21, 2011

“Benjamin Franklin and Mikhail Lomonosov: Eighteenth-century Brothers in Spirit”
Washington, D.C.
October 12, 2011

“Chronicling America: the National Digital Newspaper Program”
Washington, D.C.
August 29, 2011

“Civility and the American Spirit”
Chautauqua, New York
July 4, 2011

“The Health of our Nation”
Des Moines University, Commencement Address
May 29, 2011

“Poetries of the Islamic World”
Before the Borough of Manhattan Community College
May 7, 2011

“Conference on Holocaust-era Art
Provenance Research”
Washington, D.C.
May 6, 2011

“Defending the Liberal Arts”
Before the American Council of Learned Societies
May 6, 2011

“A Looming Crisis in the Humanities”
Before the College Art Association Centennia Convocation
February 9, 2011

“A Looming Crisis in the Humanities”
Upon Induction into the American Academy of
Arts and Science
October 8, 2010

Welcome address, National History Day
University of Maryland
College Park, Md.
June 13, 2010

“Let your speech be always with grace”
Westminster College
Salt Lake City, Utah
May 29, 2010

Introduction of Jonathan Spence at the
39th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Washington, D.C.
May 20, 2010

“Let Your Gentleness Be Known”
LaGrange, Georgia
May 15, 2010

Georgia Humanities Council
Atlanta, Georgia
May 11, 2010

“Jurisprudence and the Humanities”
American Council of Learned Societies
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 7, 2010

“With Civility for Each and Respect for All”
Making America a Hate-Free Nation
Miami-Dade College
Miami, Florida
May 1, 2010

Conference on Cultural Heritage Now
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
April 10, 2010

Chancellor’s Colloquium Lecture
University of California Davis
Davis, California
April 8, 2010

Excerpts from the prepared statement
     of NEH Chairman James A. Leach before the
     Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior,
     Environment, and Related Agencies
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
March 17, 2010

“Civility in a Fractured Society” (Excerpts)
John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress
New York University
New York, New York
March 4, 2010

NEH Chairman Jim Leach narrates “Lincoln Portrait” by Aaron Copland, performed by the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra
February 17, 2010

“The Tension between Speaking and Listening: Democracy v. Oligarchy”
Wayne State University Law School
Detroit, Michigan
February 3, 2010

“The New Digital Class”
An Address to the Social Sciences and Humanities
     Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
December 3, 2009

“Bridging Cultures”
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
November 20, 2009

“With Malice Toward None”
The Convocation of State Humanities Councils
Omaha, Nebraska
November 6, 2009

“Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The Morrill Act
and the Future of Higher Education”
The University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois
October 24, 2009

“Two Poets”
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Washington, D.C.
October 20, 2009

“U.S.A. and UNESCO”
35th Session of the General Conference
Paris, France
October 8, 2009

On the Posthumous Presentation of the
Iowa Award to Grant Wood
Iowa City, Iowa
October 2, 2009

“Bridging Cultures: NEH and the Muslim World”
Carnegie Corporation of New York
New York, New York
September 29, 2009

“Humanities and the Role of NEH”
Washington, D.C.
September 25, 2009

“Civility and Hate Speech”
California Humanities Council
Los Angeles, California
September 17, 2009

“Bringing Perspective
to the Challenges of the Day”
The Newberry Library
Chicago, Illinois
September 11, 2009

“Is There an Inalienable Right to Curiosity?”
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
September 10, 2009