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From ancient philosophy to modern-day Boston, the search for wisdom and justice finds expression in a gritty new film 

A first-year English teacher and the heresies of Robert Frost 

Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities / Posted June 14, 2019

The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day

How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not.

The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families | Posted April 26, 2019

The poet in his final years | Posted April 17, 2019

An interview with Melanie Randolph Miller

Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America

Master Conservator

His ideas altered the education of children worldwide  

King Oliver and the Great Migration | Posted April 8, 2019

A new documentary shines a light on the irrepressible singer, dancer, comedian, actor, and civil rights activist. | Posted February 26, 2019

Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source.  |  Posted February 22, 2019