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Poet Shelley Crisp brings her passion for place to North Carolina.

Fifty years ago, James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi.

Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina.

Kansans relive the guerrilla raids of the Border Wars.

On the life of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.

Exploring the francophone towns of the St. John River

A new book tackles the history of language anxiety 

Life in letters in the Ozarks during the Civil War

Why introduce children to masterpieces?

NEH puts American masterpieces in schools across the country.

A New York program discusses how Jewish settlers shaped the Wild West.

Nebraska hosts talks on the reach of the Mexican muralists.

Nebraska hosts talks on a pioneer in abstract art.

Napoleon, Britain, and the Siege of Cádiz

Ralph Alan Cohen and the American Shakespeare Center want to turn the sweet little town of Staunton, Virginia, into the world capital of Shakespearean theater.

Michael Gillette works to make Humanities Texas as noticeable as the handsome mansion it is restoring and using as a new headquarters.

At the recently expanded Morgan Library, visitors encounter architectural treasures and a peerless collection of manuscripts and art.

A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state.

Virginia's Robert Vaughan connects his state to the world.

Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York.

How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.

Dolley Madison gained influence through kindness

An excerpt from the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book

While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans.

James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain.

The prolific, opinionated artist behind The Sources of Country Music.

Where the digital age meets ancient Egypt

William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.