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Early Buddhist Manuscripts

Jennifer Howard

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Michael F. Bishop

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Herculaneum Scrolls

Meredith Hindley

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Documents of Yiddish Life

David Skinner

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Ka‘iulani Haunts Empire in Waikīkī

Stephanie Nohelani Teves

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Radio Broadcasts Local Stories

Lucius Reibel

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Cecil E. Newman: Newspaper Publisher and Advocate for Minnesota’s Black Community

Division of Preservation and Access

March 30, 2022

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Outreach and Equity at the Heart of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Education and Training Grant

Division of Preservation and Access

March 25, 2022

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The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library

Something for everyone

Jennifer Howard

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Moving 1,330 Miles from Brooklyn to Manhattan, Kansas

How the humanities welcomed us home

Bruce Grover

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December 2021 Awards in Preservation & Access

Division of Preservation and Access

February 17, 2022

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Andersonville of the Pacific

Inside the prisoner-of-war camp where the American and Filipino soldiers who survived the Battle of Bataan in 1942 were interned

John C. McManus

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Letters to a Former President

In retirement, Rutherford B. Hayes thought hard about how to help African Americans but made his greatest contribution almost by accident.

David Leight

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Digital Projects for the Public Cumulative Awards List, FY 2017–2021

Division of Public Programs

February 7, 2022

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Division of Public Programs Digital Projects for the Public Awards List - November Council 2022

Division of Public Programs

February 7, 2022

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The Artist Who Shaped Brazil

A new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden showcases the work of Roberto Burle Marx.

Tom Christopher

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Going Above and Beyond Earth

Chasing the Moon captures the drama of the Apollo space program

Jordan Howell

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How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines"

Martha S. Jones

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North Carolina’s Sherry Paula Watkins Looks to Encourage Civility in Conversation

Working to bring empathy back to civic discussions

Page Leggett

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Winning the Vote

A divided movement brought about the Nineteenth Amendment

Lisa Tetrault

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Honest to a Fault

Samuel Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small . . . and to his own despicable treatment of women.

Danny Heitman

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“Bring Shovels and Violins”

Frank Lloyd Wright created Taliesin West from the empty desert

Mark Athitakis

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Writing Gay History

How the story itself came out.

Jim Downs

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Beauty in the Abstract

Alma Thomas’s paintings revealed her gift for color and pattern

Angelica Aboulhosn

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The Sit-In at Delta State, 40 Years Later

Mississippi

Rosalind Early

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The Writers Who Translated Goethe into English Became Some of the Best Writers in English

Outsiders and several important women of letters were drawn to the cult of Goethe.

Gregory Maertz

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South Dakota’s Ann Volin

Lori Walsh

Photo by Wes Eisenhauer

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Roosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal Education

Speaking truth to power

Humanities Staff

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Editor’s Note

David Skinner

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Meet Major Taylor, the Fastest Man on Two Wheels

In the Gilded Age, he was a trailblazing international superstar of cycling

Peter Joffre Nye