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Federalists and and anti-federalists put aside their differences and agree on the First Amendment in this first-place entry in the 2006 Idea of America Essay Contest.

From The Great Gatsby to Sister Carrie, writers tell stories of social climbers and fortune hunters.

John James Audubon captured a disappearing world in his paintings.

Smith's experiences as a pirate, mercenary, and Turkish slave prepare him to survive in the New World.

The eighteenth-century traveler, writer, and social climber John Ledyard joins Thomas Jefferson and a famed circle of expatriates in Paris.

Marilynne Robinson on the reception of Gilead

Tapping into Roman waters

Walt Whitman on 19th Century New York

This diva was the real deal

Conflict Endured during Colonial Period in Virginia over Morality of Christians Enslaving Other Christians

Mexican Cultural Movement in the Twenties Had Plenty of Varoom

Digital humanities enhances emotional experience of viewing AIDS Quilt

How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.

Disney parking garage is world's largest.

A cache of photographs reveals the history of a historic Rhode Island house.

A steel town in New Jersey made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.

Council's slogan is the sound of a new idea.

Herod built on a Roman scale.

Journalist Andrew Ferguson and NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discuss America's love-hate relationship with our sixteenth president.

Educational adventure-game explores Elizabethan Age.

Marching to the beat of a silent drummer.

Poet Shelley Crisp brings her passion for place to North Carolina.

Fifty years ago, James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi.

Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina.

Kansans relive the guerrilla raids of the Border Wars.

On the life of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.