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For nineteenth-century sailor, tattoos both smoothed the way and caused alarm.

Mountain division captured high ground in WW II.

California museum has good roadside manner.

Collection of vintage postcards leaves its stamp.

Veterans' voices shape a new play in Minnesota.

An Alabama girl married into a revolution in Costa Rica.

The moral and political dilemmas of the time seem so clear in retrospect.

To understand her, you need to understand Eatonville—and vice versa.

Averroës' writings on Aristotle shaped Western philosophy as we know it.

New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.

Early in the Civil War, the Union narrowly avoided war with Britain.

The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.

Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.

An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.

Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.

The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing

A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.

New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.

The hijacking of Kurt Vonnegut's early education embarrassed him not just at the time but down the road, when his career would bring him into contact with writers more well-read than he was.

The freedom to marry across racial lines was tested by a shy Virginia couple, who were very much in love.

The complete poems of Philip Larkin

Beyond her relationship with Voltaire, Émilie du Châtelet was one of the foremost thinkers of her time.

A play in Pennsylvania asks, "what is authentic?"

Fort Ross on California's rocky coast contained an oasis of Russian refinement.

In a digital archive of Hamlet quartos, classic Shakespearean words come and go.

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

The original right-wing takedown artist

On letters, diaries, and other records of the American story at the Massachusetts Historical Society

America's greatest personal essayist was more than a little shy and intensely self-conscious

The records division at the Frick continues working toward the great goal of its founder.