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A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust.

Putting humanities tools into local hands.

On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.

A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something?

Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C.,

Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best.

Texas looks at the land through the eyes of artist Alexandre Hogue.

Wisconsin remembers its Badger Boys who fought for the Union.

Buried treasure in Austin

A look at "Gifts of the Sultan" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The man was remembered, but not his cause.

New York dancers take to the country

In an otherworldly black-and-white photo taken in midtown Manhattan by renowned jazz photographer William Gottlieb on a rainy night in July 1948, jam-packed neon signs shine brightly along both sides

This diminutive steamer, christened the SL Puffin, began life in 1906 as a 5-horsepower gasoline-powered launch.

The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.

Meet the perpetrator of a long-running and remarkably elaborate pseudoscientific scam.

Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.

From Winchester College to The Search for Modern China.

The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.

American lit in a Pacific outpost

A call-in show in North Dakota broadcasts under the motto that philosophy is for everyone.

How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.

A new exhibit of art, ritual, and performance from a tropical paradise.

Through Georgia's online encyclopedia, Jamil Zainaldin helps disseminate the state's historical gems.

Preserving nineteenth-century Indian miniatures

Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece. 

Victorian novelists took dim view of bibliophiles