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Entrepreneur and onetime gubernatorial candidate Lewis Lehrman talks to NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about Abraham Lincoln’s pivotal speech in 1854.

On Homer and the mortals and gods who fill his tales

Our current mania for Mark Twain

Meet Louisa Yeomans King, the “fairy godmother” of American gardening

Visits to sites relating to city's Jim Crow past have lasting impact

On the "commons" of intellectual property.

On the carefully prescribed protocol of dueling

Ironic term makes unequivocal mark

Study demonstrates that a public voice can help develop a theocratic city

NEH Chairman Jim Leach talks with Drew Gilpin Faust, daughter of the South, president of Harvard, and this year's Jefferson Lecturer.

Mad hatter tears worshipper's chapeau in two during Sunday service.

Ted Lord brings poetry and tech savvy to the humanities in Washington.

Educational experiment attracted artists, musicians, free spirits

Poetic justice in small-town America

Great art meets folk art at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum

The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here.

The stories on stage reflect the range of veterans’ experiences as well as their similarities.

Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously.

Writer Amity Shlaes talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her take on the Great Depression.

Numerous translations of Don Quixote, some made without knowledge of Spanish, attest to the novel’s long reach.

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Medieval Feasts Sometimes Had a Moral Tossed in with the Meal

Portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and historical maps flesh out the cultural history.