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The National Council on the Humanities is charged with a lofty mission.

She takes a public historian's view of the world.

Endowment's great mission and growing achievements are reviewed

Tocqueville is still trenchant.

Hemingway on a bicycle

One scholar’s lifetime of devotion to the letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First in a series: Revisiting the Spring 1971 issue of Humanities

How the state humanities councils expanded and helped fulfill the mission of NEH

A new anthology of African-American writing reveals black lives in the Midwest.

Los Angeles elected its first black mayor with a multicultural coalition.

Ken Burns’s The Civil War Turns 25.

The origins of the Library of America were a messy business.

Anyone could walk in and record their song at small studio in Memphis.

The Little Prince author, a famous pilot, wrote for adults too.

When the boy-king was the hottest ticket in town