The AHA encourages our members to contact your congressional representatives today through the National Humanities Alliance’s action alert, and urge them to save the NEH. The NHA is also collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31, 2025. If you or your organization has been affected by the NEH’s grant terminations, please complete this form.

The American Historical Association has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as the current administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has terminated hundreds of grants and put 75% of staff on leave.

URGENT UPDATE: DOGE Rescinds NEH Grants

We learned this morning (April 3) that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand that this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community organizations, and individuals. While we know that grants are being terminated, we do not yet know the full scope of terminations.

At this moment, our understanding is that the grant terminations are being issued directly from DOGE and that the email address included in the termination letter is a DOGE email address. Emails sent to this address go to DOGE directly and not the NEH.

It is imperative that affected grantees get in touch with their Members of Congress directly. We are also collecting information about the scope of the terminations. If your organization or one of your members has been directly affected, please fill out this form both to let us know and to get appropriate contact information for congressional staff.

Here are additional steps you can take:

• We are reissuing our advocacy alert to account for these actions. Take action here: https://p2a.co/DdtlGIT\
• Share this news as well as this alert to your colleagues and members.
• If you have been affected by these terminations, contact the press to let them know.

As a reminder, we are hosting office hours for the next week to support press outreach. Your members are welcome to join us. Sign up here:

All of our resources and our statement are available on our website. We are exploring further actions and will continue to keep you informed as additional action is needed.