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Through humor, Winslow Homer learned to tap into the subtleties of the Gilded Age.

Gilgamesh was a brutal tyrant who foolishly tried to defeat death.

Sherry DeBoer brings a love of literature to her native South Dakota.

Washington Irving leaves Gotham to explore the frontier

In their last days, the suffragist pioneers look back

Learn about five hundred years of artistic tradition from the Joseon Dynasty

He fought, killed, and was killed. 

World War II brought about a new deal for veterans

How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers . . .

In talking about their national game, Chinese reveal world views, personal philosophies, and notions of other lands and peoples.

Getting Donne down, virtually

Exact location of Sand Creek conflict had gone missing

In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the history of a people 

Website on Gulag presents daily struggle for survival

From Yemeni tribesmen to Pakistani truck drivers, poetry speaks to Muslim world.

Show served as time capsule of pioneering days of black journalists

The race to save Nome from a diphtheria outbreak

On the devoted oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson.

Sacred Street Theater in Medieval England

Using modern technology to understand a network of eighteenth-century thinkers.

The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Harry Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.

A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art.

As Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.

Tucson restores its mid-century neon signs.

Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy

This patriarch of American science was an enemy of Darwin.

Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.