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New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.

The hijacking of Kurt Vonnegut's early education embarrassed him not just at the time but down the road, when his career would bring him into contact with writers more well-read than he was.

The freedom to marry across racial lines was tested by a shy Virginia couple, who were very much in love.

The complete poems of Philip Larkin

Beyond her relationship with Voltaire, Émilie du Châtelet was one of the foremost thinkers of her time.

A play in Pennsylvania asks, "what is authentic?"

Fort Ross on California's rocky coast contained an oasis of Russian refinement.

In a digital archive of Hamlet quartos, classic Shakespearean words come and go.

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

The original right-wing takedown artist

On letters, diaries, and other records of the American story at the Massachusetts Historical Society

America's greatest personal essayist was more than a little shy and intensely self-conscious

The records division at the Frick continues working toward the great goal of its founder.

Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.

The activist legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe 

The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.

At the Second Washington Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill set in motion the invasion of North Africa over their staffs' objections.

NEH Chairman Jim Leach sits down with writer and farmer Wendell Berry, this year's Jefferson Lecturer.

How the Nazi Party Recast Nietzsche

From American Playhouse to 12 Years a Slave, two films give different views of the same story.

Colonial opulence had to be displayed behind closed doors.

Immigrant, tribal, and veteran voices are heard in telling of stories

But she loves baseball and complicated heroes

Niche words still produce some linguistic tang

A privileged view into the literary mind

Papa's key ingredients

A New Exhibit Tells Their Stories.

Michigan prison gets artistic makeover