Ruth J. Simmons, professor, author, and president emerita of Prairie View A&M, Brown University, and Smith College, delivers the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, “Facing History to Find a Better Future,” on September 26, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. NEH’s Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Learn more at NEH.gov.