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Educational experiment attracted artists, musicians, free spirits

Poetic justice in small-town America

Great art meets folk art at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum

The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here.

The stories on stage reflect the range of veterans’ experiences as well as their similarities.

Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously.

Writer Amity Shlaes talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her take on the Great Depression.

Numerous translations of Don Quixote, some made without knowledge of Spanish, attest to the novel’s long reach.

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Medieval Feasts Sometimes Had a Moral Tossed in with the Meal

Portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and historical maps flesh out the cultural history.

Amid waves that topped 70 feet, two 500-foot tankers split apart just off Cape Cod.

Disputes in Mogollon Rim in late nineteenth century inspired stories by Zane Grey.

Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Venice.

Decorative arts in Ohio and beyond.

New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library.

Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron.

Wayward Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay

From the imagination of a business-savvy Polish rabbi

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's influence on British musicians

Standing up for the quieter, shy sister of the arts.

The choreography of Ulysses Dove lives on in New Orleans.

Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.