Soon after the National Endowment for the Humanities'2001 designation of nine regional centers around the country, the centers began an informal conversation that has developed into a partnership that spans the country.

Acknowledging our common mission, the centers work individually and collaboratively to encourage the preservation and understanding of the humanities traditions of history, folklore, language, literature, and other fields for their regions. Follow the links below to see the work of each center.

Our most visible shared venture is the annual conference of the Consortium of Regional Humanities Centers. The inaugural conference, "Regionalism and the Humanities," was hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Plains Humanities Alliance in Lincoln, in 2003. This symposium gathered nearly 150 scholars from around the country who responded to the idea of defining region and regionalism andtheir relationship to the humanities.

The conference tradition continued in 2004 with a gathering of Consortium representatives in Savannah, Georgia, to consider hands-on practical matters of the regional centers. Future conferences on regionalism, held annually, will alternate thematically between practical "buisness meetings," and substantive examinations of regional themes through formal papers. These ongoing conferences continue to consolidate the relationships among the members of the Consortium.