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With Henry David Thoreau, winter walks can quickly turn into "frolic gambols."

The Humanities Behind Bars

Domesticity on the rise in Oregon.

An "unwilling participant" in the American Revolution writes from her fortified Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.

A new documentary tells the story of Jews in America

Abraham Lincoln's legal papers reveal a surprising cache of sundry clients and dramatic litigation.

Andrew Jackson stares down the national bank and wins.

NEH celebrates five years of We the People

A sampler of We the People projects from the Founders to Mark Twain to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A famous battle, a once famous painting

Without parents or a degree, Philip Lampi became the nation’s foremost expert on elections in the Republic’s early years.

In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.

Judith Dupré and Life After 9/11

The modern restaurant has its roots in revolution

American writer Richard Ford discusses The Sportswriter

Remembering one of the greatest memoirs ever written

Czechoslovakia had well-wishers, but no friends

A group who saved Western art from Nazi looting and a California farmer who redefined ancient warfare are included in the latest list of National Humanities Medalists.

How two American women changed the stardards of style and scooped the Paris prognosticators.

Here's How the State Humanities Councils Have Joined the Celebration

Georges Collinet was a rock ’n’ roll-playing, Cold War DJ; now he's an elder stateman of world music.

The Duke of Lerma had the King's ear and, as a result, great power.

Women's shoes in the early nineteenth century were ideal for doing nothing.

Author Michael Anton speaks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the history and influences behind modern men's fashion.

On scholarly communities in the digital age.

Our objects tell amazing stories, not all of them accurate.