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The Washington, D.C., artist celebrated beauty above all 

The Crowd, the Crown, and What Came After

In Kansas, Phil Dixon recalls the Monarchs and other barnstorming teams from the Jim Crow era

Kansas

West Virginia

A traveling exhibition explores the underworld

A conversation with Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University

In the 1970s and ’80s, geographer Ken Martis mapped every congressional district and color-coded them by political party, going all the way back to the first Congress. 

Art from a veterans’ humanities course helps commemorate 9/11

Six days a week for almost three decades, the pioneering first lady explored what it’s like to be an American

How the Renaissance ideal became a pointless hustle

An excerpt from All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

How a religious practice came to fascinate neuroscientists and gave birth to the mindfulness movement

An interview with Amy Stanley

Georgia

Nevada

Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities