National Humanities Medal

February 11, 2012

I am profoundly honored that this is the list of National Humanities Medalists that will be getting their awards on Monday.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
John Ashbery
Robert Darnton
Andrew Delbanco
National History Day
Charles Rosen
Teofilo Ruiz
Ramón Saldívar
Amartya Sen

You can follow along live here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/Live

As I said to my sisters this morning, it tells you something about how small the world is (and how big-hearted America can be) that one medal awardee (from India) is married to the cousin of another (from Ghana and England!)