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The story of Henry Box Brown's escape from slavery.

Fifty-five outdoor sculptures define a modern sensibility at tiny Ursinus College.

Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings

William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionists

A visit to Chestertown, Maryland

What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?

What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing.

Middle schoolers comb through diaries, trek over battlefields, and relive history with cameras in hand.

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

Oberlin, Ohio, was an abolitionist stronghold, but not impermeable.

Thomas Pearson repelled American forces, driving Canada toward nationhood.

A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?

The Coming of Prohibition

A Field Guide

She aims to expand the conversation.

On the first thousand, tumultuous years of Christianity.

Louis Armstrong's "clarinetisms."

Meaningful work for Depression-era artists

The Underground Railroad also led to Mexico.

Alfred Shaheen brought Hawaiian fashion to the world.

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.

How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.

A Selective Filmography

Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.

The Art of Martin Scorsese

His inspiration comes from the stories people tell.

The life and legends of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.