Windows to the Past is presented in part by the North Carolina Humanities Council.
“We believe that members of the human race become more constructively human…and aid the development of a more just and exciting society through thinking about – really thinking about – the human experience”. So wrote the late Dr. John Caldwell, former chancellor of North Carolina State University, and a founding member of the North Carolina Humanities Council.
In that letter to the Council written not long before his death in 1995, Caldwell was reflecting on the role of the humanities in the lives of North Carolinians. He dedicated much of his life to enriching the intellectual experience of all people, and his legacy lives on in thousands of individuals throughout Our State and around the world who continue to be inspired by his teaching.
The John Tyler Caldwell Award is the highest honor given by the NC Humanities Council. Past recipients include Fred Chappell, Emily Herring Wilson and John Hope Franklin. This year scholar, statesman, and NC Congressional Representative David Price accepted the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, on Friday, October 21, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Prior to Representative Price receiving the award, Duke University President Richard Brodhead delivered the annual Caldwell Lecture in the Humanities. They shared their thoughts on the ceremony and the humanities with TAW host David Ford.
