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Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.

The activist legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe 

The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.

At the Second Washington Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill set in motion the invasion of North Africa over their staffs' objections.

NEH Chairman Jim Leach sits down with writer and farmer Wendell Berry, this year's Jefferson Lecturer.

How the Nazi Party Recast Nietzsche

From American Playhouse to 12 Years a Slave, two films give different views of the same story.

Colonial opulence had to be displayed behind closed doors.

Immigrant, tribal, and veteran voices are heard in telling of stories

But she loves baseball and complicated heroes

Niche words still produce some linguistic tang

A privileged view into the literary mind

Papa's key ingredients

A New Exhibit Tells Their Stories.

Michigan prison gets artistic makeover

But first they lost two starting players.

It’s more than a word. It’s an attitude and a lifestyle.

Parnes takes up the cause of the humanities in Connecticut.

Martin Scorsese takes the stage.

An interview with the 2013 Jefferson Lecturer

How New York became a hub for Spanish dance.

The evolution of Wonder Woman.

Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.

On Europe's introduction to the Buddhist "way of life." 

The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.

Real and imagined cowboys in New Mexico.