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What Teaching Political Philosophy and Efficiency Have to Do with Each Other.

As technology advances, doomsaying remains constant.

Yes, the younger generation loves that old time jazz, but why?

A writer goes in search of W.A.R. Goodwin

The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World.

How the New Deal paved the way for the Great Society and the creation of a federal agency devoted to the humanities

Courting beauty at the Walters Art Museum.

An NEH-funded film revisits the Puritan Separatists who arrived aboard the Mayflower.

(It was George Plimpton who brought them together.)

“Writing by American Warriors” updates soldier lit in a new volume of veterans’ writing.

How an early digital humanities experiment helped college students grapple with modern poetry

Taking a break from the Great War, the intrepid writer finds inspiration in the Maghreb.

Books published recently with NEH support

New England mills adapated to the needs of the twentieth century.

In the 1970s, a PBS miniseries brought short stories to the screen with significant success.

An interview with Jon Parrish Peede, NEH's new chairman

A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order.

A Victorian asylum has become a museum—and a setting for horror stories. 

Rhode Island's Elizabeth Francis finds that small grants in a small state can have a big impact.

Deep in the Colorado Plateau, there are paintings from an ancient people.

What started as commercial work ended as art

Books recently published with NEH support.

And how to support them

The Osher Map Library invites the whole world in.

Anderson House in Washington, D.C., recalls a pair of American socialites and serves as headquarters to the Society of the Cincinnati

James Laughlin, champion of literature

A photographer documents the nearly abandoned island of Adak, Alaska.

What the history of the First Folio tells us about our greatest playwright

His haunting voice was once described as “the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window.”

An Artist in Love with His Adopted Country