The University of Rhode Island houses 2,500 boxes of US Senator Claiborne Pell’s papers, covering the 36 years Pell served as senator from Rhode Island. This unique collection is housed at the University Archives and Special Collections.
As part of the URI Pell Archive Initiative, the Libraries have digitized a subset of the Pell papers related to the formation of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Libraries' Pell related collections, contact archives-group@uri.edu.
Browse the Senatorial Papers of Claiborne Pell, NEH Collection:
Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996)
- African-American Museum (1993-1994)
- Appropriations (1978-1986)
- Appropriations (1994-1995)
- Appropriations (1996)
- Arts and Humanities: Background (1975-1995)
- Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments: House Report (1993)
- Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments: Reports with Minority Views (1990)
- Arts: Policy and Talking Points (1994)
- Berman, Ronald: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (1975-1976)
- Berman, Ronald: Memoranda (1975-1984)
- Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976)
- Biddle, Livingston: National Medal of Arts (1994)
- Biddle Proposal: Arts Organizations (1995)
- Briefing Book: National Endowment for the Arts (1994)
- Community Arts Partnership Act (1994)
- Community Arts Partnership Act: Correspondence (1994)
- Congressional Arts Caucus (February 1994)
- Conservation: Hearings, Reports, Correspondence (1971-1973)
- Consolidated and Reformed Workforce Development and Literacy Act (1976)
- Curran, Edward: Confirmation Hearing (1985)
- Curran, Edward: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (1985)
- Design Arts (1994-1995)
- Design Arts: National Academy of Design (1994)
- Division of Education Programs and Research Grants (1974-1975)
- Duffey, Joseph: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (September 9, 1977)
- Endowments: Reauthorization Bill (that was never given floor time) (1995)
- Fellowships, Stipends, and Seminars (1973-1974)
- Folger Shakespeare Library: Renaissance Forum Awards (1995)
- Hackney, Sheldon: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (1993)
- Hearing on Museums (July 19, 1973)
- Holocaust Museum (1994)
- Humanities: State Agencies (September 15, 1975)
- Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991)
- Iannone, Carol: National Council on the Humanities Nomination (1991)
- Iannone, Carol: National Council on the Humanities Nomination (1991)
- Iannone, Carol: News Articles (1991)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services Act: Press Releases (1996)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services Act (1996)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services Act (1996)
- Interior Appropriations Bill: Pell Statements (1990)
- Legislative History of the Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) (1990)
- Letters (1979)
- Letters (1980)
- Letters (1981)
- Letters (1982)
- Letters (1983)
- Letters (1984)
- Letters: Outgoing (1990-1994)
- Library Services and Construction Act (1988-1991)
- Library Services and Construction Act: Joint Hearing (April 11, 1989)
- Library Services and Construction Act: Reauthorization (1989-1994)
- Library Services and Construction Act: Reauthorization Technicals (1984-1985)
- Library Services and Construction Act: Testimonies (1994)
- Library Services and Technology Act (1996)
- Library Services Improvement Act (1988-1989)
- Library Services Improvement Act (1989)
- List of Awards by State (1989)
- Museum and Library Services Act (1996)
- Museum Services Board (1991)
- National Commission on Libraries (1991)
- National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1989-1990)
- National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1990-1991)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Reauthorization (1975)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act and Museum Services Act: Extensions (1979)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: S. 1386 (1979)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: S. 1386 (1979)
- National Library and Information Services Act (1979-1980)
- National Museum Act Program (1973-1974)
- National Museum Act Program (1973-1974)
- President's Committee (1994)
- Reagan Administration: Funding Cuts News Articles (1981-1982)
- Reauthorization: Hearings and Reports (1990)
- Reauthorization: Hearings and Reports (1990)
- Reauthorization: Institute for Museum Services (IMS) (1990)
- Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990)
- Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990)
- Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990)
- Reauthorization: State Grant Formula (1990)
- Reauthorization: Williams/Coleman Compromise (October 27, 1990)
- Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1979-1992)
- Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1979-1992)
- Senate Speeches on the Arts and Humanities (1994-1996)
- Spending Amendments (1994)
- Statements and Speeches (1975-1979)
- Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1975)
- White House Conference on Library and Information Services (1987-1988)
- White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Early Stages (1979-1985)
- White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Final passage (1988)
- White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Hearing S.J. Res. 26 (April 3, 1987)
- White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Joint Hearing (1991)
- White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Staff Memoranda (February 10, 1988)
- Workforce Development Act (1996)
Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files II (1962-1996)
- Advisory Panels: Confidentiality Clause (1975)
- Art and Industry (1962)
- Art and Leisure: Speech (May 4, 1964)
- Artists-in Schools Program (1974-1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Appropriations (1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Budget (1974-1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Correspondence (1982)
- Arts and Humanities: Democratic Platform (1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Funding Levels (1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Opening Statement by Chairman (1962-1996)
- Arts and Humanities: Pell Amendments (1975)
- Arts and Humanities: Pell Amendments (1975)
- Arts and Humanities: Pell Statement (January 27, 1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Program Funding (1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1973-1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1975)
- Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1976)
- Arts and Humanities: Reports (1979-1980)
- Arts and Humanities: Senate Report (1976)
- Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act (1976)
- Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act (1976)
- Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act: Section-by-Section Analysis (1976)
- Arts, Humanities, Museums: Background (1973-1976)
- Arts Legislation (1961-1965)
- Arts Trade Association Dinner: Speech Research (1963-1967)
- Authors League of America (1973)
- Bicentennial Observance (1976)
- Biddle, Livy: Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (1977-1979)
- Brademas, John (1975)
- Business Committee for the Humanities (1973-1979)
- Conference Material (1976)
- Conference Position Paper (1976)
- Conservation: Hearings, Reports (1966-1973)
- Conservation: Training, Reports (1966-1973)
- Corcoran School of Art (1975)
- Council of the AFL-CIO (1976)
- Endowment Advisory Panels (1976)
- Federal Advisory Council to the Arts, United States Arts Foundation: Hearings (August 1962)
- Hearings: Pell Statements (1976)
- Hearings: Questions, Memoranda (1976)
- International Art: Indemnification (1975)
- Kerr, John Hoare (1978-1984)
- Labor Support (1976)
- Museum Services Act (1973)
- Museum Services Act (1984)
- Museum Services Act (1984)
- National Arts Legislation: Pell Bill (1964)
- National Endowment for the Arts (1976)
- National Endowment for the Arts: News Articles (1980)
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Council Reappointments (1984)
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Mark-Up (1976)
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Summary Programs (1976)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (1965-1967)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (1965-1967)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (1976-1979)
- National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1985)
- National Gallery: Rhode Island Exhibit (1962)
- Obscenity: Andres Serrano Controversy (1989)
- Obscenity: Andres Serrano Controversy (1989)
- Obscenity: News Articles (1989)
- Pell Correspondence (1985-1992)
- Pell Letters (1978)
- Program Funding (1976)
- Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1976)
- Smithsonian Art Exhibit and Rhode Island State House and Providence City Hall (1962)
- Smithsonian Referrals (1973)
- State Humanities Committees (1979-1982)
- State Humanities Committees (1979-1982)
- Sub-Grants (1989-1990)
- Surplus Federal Property Act (1976)
- Technical Amendments (1983-1984)
- Technical Assistance Bill (1976)
- Tiffany House Art Center (1963)
- Washington Office Exhibit (1962)
- Wexler, Stephen (1975)