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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.

Modernists of the American West

And the Art of Victor Segalen

Brenda Thomson works to bring everyone into the conversation.

On the Soviet experiment that became Lamaze.   

Modern views, demographic changes leavened Jordanian cultural traditions surrounding the staff of life.

Molly Brown's digs in Denver were unsinkable, too.

Wedgwood ceramics served a dual purpose

Emilie Blackmore Stapp raised millions through her philanthropic club.

An eclectic art show tours to remote spots in Nevada.

Executive director works for long-term stability to bring the humanities to all Nebraskans

Western Americanist and native Californian David Igler on sea captains who sought their fortunes

The new chairman of NEH almost failed out of college. He joined the Army, was sent to Vietnam, and came back a different person.

Foreign-language newspapers provided insights into immigration and cultural history

Gazetteer provides lay of the land

Big show on Mount Solmissos

Oral histories mark the role of the neighborhood movie house

Utopian vision of a Harvard forestry grad

Touring with urban geology in mind

From blueberry pies to veteran reading programs, Hayden Anderson applies purity of thinking.