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The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.

In defense of the humanities

An influx of undesirables at the end of the nineteenth century hit Boston's elite rather hard.

In the classroom and in daily life, Leon Kass believes in the best of human nature.

The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations

What and How Herman Melville Read

A recollection of Wallace Stegner

Thomas Cole and Frederick Church in the Hudson River Valley

Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language

The woman who helped revitalize New Orleans’s down-at-the-heels French Quarter

Exploring the history of Paris's largest private cemetery 

Our fascination with Buddha goes well beyond power drinks and movie stars.

Idaho listens to the songs of its people.

Connecticut celebrates Noah Webster.

Nevada pays tribute to the vision of Howard Hughes.

Oklahoma remembers the career of costumier Edith Head.

On the self-help career of grammarian Sherwin Cody.

Thomas Hart Benton was famous when he wrote his autobiography, forgotten when he updated it.

Michael of Rhodes was not your typical fifteenth-century Venetian, and he left his manuscript as proof.

Cambridge's pastoral gateway to paradise set the trend for modern cemeteries.

Life on a nineteenth-century whaler was thrilling, tedious, and often disgusting.

South Dakota remembers the Great War in a collection of one family's letters.

The Popular Front and American culture.

Alabama marks fifty years of To Kill a Mockingbird.

A Pennsylvania scholar brings new interest to the composer known as the Black Mozart.

Texas views the life of Anne Frank through her father's photos.

Translating the world’s first known manual of counterinsurgency warfare

All things communist—from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes—find a home at the Wende.

Telling 436 stories in one documentary.