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How the humanities welcomed us home

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

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

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

Chasing the Moon captures the drama of the Apollo space program

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines"

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The humble worm was once a status symbol

Working to bring empathy back to civic discussions

Bacon wrote canonical essays, steeped in realism and insight, but his true legacy may rest with the sciences 

A lexicon of terms from the intersection of political theory and artificial intelligence

During World War II, François Tosquelles treated patients by addressing the sickness of society

What I ate and learned along Route 11

What honor required of men.

A divided movement brought about the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Frank Lloyd Wright created Taliesin West from the empty desert

How the story itself came out.

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