Explore Our Work

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 

The Sacred Band of Thebes

As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as a historian, he searched for the causes of epidemics

South Carolina

Wyoming

An early American naturalist’s terrifying account continues to color how the public views an iconic reptile

Agnes de Mille created a ballet inspired by the American West.

An interview with Jared Farmer