Panel participants discuss the history of the state humanities councils at the LBJ Presidential Library. From left to right: Jamil Zainaldin, president of the Georgia Humanities Council; Marion Cott, former executive director of the Kansas Humanities Council; Esther Mackintosh, president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils; Robert C. Vaughan III, president of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; Carole M. Watson, acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; James F. Veninga, executive director emeritus of Humanities Texas; and Kristina A. Valaitis, former executive director of the Illinois Humanities Council.