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Amid waves that topped 70 feet, two 500-foot tankers split apart just off Cape Cod.

Disputes in Mogollon Rim in late nineteenth century inspired stories by Zane Grey.

Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Venice.

Decorative arts in Ohio and beyond.

New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library.

Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron.

Wayward Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay

From the imagination of a business-savvy Polish rabbi

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's influence on British musicians

Standing up for the quieter, shy sister of the arts.

The choreography of Ulysses Dove lives on in New Orleans.

Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.

The great author lives on in comic books, cartoons, and wherever dark secrets of the human heart are written.

In Illinois, the humanities council puts its efforts into civic discourse.

Gary Vikan, former director of the Walters Art Museum, talks about Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director

As a meteorologist for the United States Navy for more than twenty years, Kristine Harper is distinctly qualified to talk about the weather.

Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.

For more than 2,000 years, the Winged Victory of Samothrace has been surrounded in mystery, and still she beguiles.

The history of the The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is revealed.

Connecticut's citizens preserve memories of World War I

Willa Cather turns her sharp eye on the theater 

Wife finds her husband practices both medicine and burglary.

The place to go for ramps and Fasnacht

Jane Brailove Rutkoff brings programs to all corners of New Jersey.

Jerome Robbins built a new style from classical and modern parts

A visit with Sabiha Al Khemir

A writer of his time—and ours