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Florida's coast was a deadly place for seventeenth-century castaways.

Preserving masks used by the Nahua Indians of central Mexico

Alaska's sea-otter hunting left records of village life.

Preserving the history the U.S. Navy's Special Forces 

Jay "Ding" Darling was the best friend a duck ever had.

The evolution of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union

The genius detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has inspired a mountain of imitations.

First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.

How one university course has affected a generation of mostly Mormon students.

It would be hard to imagine anyone more learned about the German spoken today in central Texas than Hans Boas.

Kansas's Julie Mulvihill travels the state stumping for the humanities.

The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.

Actors and Scholars explore the hidden wonders of more than a half dozen plays.

A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.

Rome's ruthless upstart was really a savvy insider, until fortune turned her back on him.

The Slave Trade by the Numbers

Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.

The rise of America's culture of print.

From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphs.

On the elusive Cleopatra.

As the sesquicentennial nears, a selection of past, present, and future humanities projects

Kierkegaard was a psychologist of sorts, but unlike Freud he believed in God. 

In China they were called cainü.

The walking tour goes digital.

In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.

George Mason swore he would rather "chop off his right hand" than sign the Constitution.

The Buddhist Caves of Xiangtangshan

In the early days of basketball, the girls from the Fort Shaw Indian School took on all comers.