Modernists of the American West

William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.

While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans.

An excerpt from the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book

How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.

Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York.

Virginia's Robert Vaughan connects his state to the world.

A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state.