Humanities Montana is a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of fifty-six independent councils across the United States. Established in 1972, we were created in order to better infuse the humanities into public life. Humanities Montana serves communities through stories and conversation. We offer experiences that nurture imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans’ diverse history, literature, and philosophy. To achieve our goal, Humanities Montana provides programs that tell our diverse stories, facilitates conversations about the most pressing issues, supports Montana’s cultural institutions through grants and partnerships, and offers humanities such as history, literature, and philosophy to nurture memory, imagination, and ideas.