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April 19, 2021

Academy Receives $1M Grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to Strengthen Democracy

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has received a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to advance the recommendations in Our Common Purpose. The funds support the Academy's work to move from idea to implementation with a five-year plan leading up to the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026.

Seamus Heaney at a turf bog in Bellaghy with his father's coat, hat and walking stick and additional shots in the Bellaghy bog, 1986. Bobbie Hanvey, photographer.

Academy Article

Apr 13, 2021

Seamus Heaney - His Words, His Voice

Listen to Seamus Heaney read his poem “From the Frontier of Writing” along with commentary about its inspiration. This is an excerpt from a compete transcript and recording of his evening at the Academy.

Academy Article

April 13, 2021

Two Essays, One International Nuclear Future

A new publication from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences is released. Its purpose is to inform policymakers who will shape the relative safety or danger of the future international nuclear environment.

“Looking Backward. They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge That Carried Them and Their Fathers Over” (1893) by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838–1894).

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Mar 30, 2021

New Dædalus Issue Explores Immigration, Nativism & Race in the United States

The criminalization of immigrants in America has been a decades-long project advanced by Democrats and Republicans alike with Donald Trump's campaign a sharp turn toward explicit nativism. The essays in the Spring 2021 issue of Dædalus offer a bleak assessment of how we got here, but some still find room for optimism.