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Bridging urban and rural worldviews with humanities programming.

A Conversation with Jill Lepore

Preserving immigrant heritage in eastern Iowa and western Illinois

Preserving an Ohio landmark 

An Irish poet reflects on his time in Idaho

Ethnic tensions between Irish and French Canadians in Fall River

Renaissance remedies to keep the terrors at bay

How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate American policy

A fact-checker investigates.

The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”

Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.

One hundred years later, Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago still inspires.

A pollster reports his findings

He Made Dictionaries Matter

Peter Gilbert recruits top scholars to Vermont's monthly gatherings.

On the creative life of Orson Welles.

Congressman Jim Leach comes to NEH

On Hemingway's letters

The Perseus Digital Library breathes new life into a "dead" language.

Exploring our obsession with "stuff" 

Where is the earthy language in the English tongue’s greatest epic tale?

Pottery as temperance propaganda 

Tablets Reveal Ideas of Roman Self-Identity.

Photographing the borough’s public places

Kentucky photographer and folklorist keeps grave houses alive.

Preserving Benin artifacts at Oberlin College

The Ossian Sweet Story is the jubject of Kevin Boyle's National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.