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The great author lives on in comic books, cartoons, and wherever dark secrets of the human heart are written.

In Illinois, the humanities council puts its efforts into civic discourse.

Gary Vikan, former director of the Walters Art Museum, talks about Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director

As a meteorologist for the United States Navy for more than twenty years, Kristine Harper is distinctly qualified to talk about the weather.

Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.

For more than 2,000 years, the Winged Victory of Samothrace has been surrounded in mystery, and still she beguiles.

The history of the The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is revealed.

Connecticut's citizens preserve memories of World War I

Willa Cather turns her sharp eye on the theater 

Wife finds her husband practices both medicine and burglary.

The place to go for ramps and Fasnacht

Jane Brailove Rutkoff brings programs to all corners of New Jersey.

Jerome Robbins built a new style from classical and modern parts

A visit with Sabiha Al Khemir

A writer of his time—and ours

On the letters and lives of John and Abigail Adams

A literary scholar looks for Elizabeth Bishop in the fishing waters of Florida.

A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.

The Bloomsbury group broke ties with Victorian ideals and reimagined British art.

How Asia Changed the Course of American Art

A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.

The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.

In defense of the humanities

An influx of undesirables at the end of the nineteenth century hit Boston's elite rather hard.

In the classroom and in daily life, Leon Kass believes in the best of human nature.

The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations