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In talking about their national game, Chinese reveal world views, personal philosophies, and notions of other lands and peoples.

Getting Donne down, virtually

Exact location of Sand Creek conflict had gone missing

In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the history of a people 

Website on Gulag presents daily struggle for survival

From Yemeni tribesmen to Pakistani truck drivers, poetry speaks to Muslim world.

Show served as time capsule of pioneering days of black journalists

The race to save Nome from a diphtheria outbreak

On the devoted oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson.

Sacred Street Theater in Medieval England

Using modern technology to understand a network of eighteenth-century thinkers.

The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Harry Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.

A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art.

As Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.

Tucson restores its mid-century neon signs.

Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy

This patriarch of American science was an enemy of Darwin.

Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.

"Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints," featuring the art of Brazil is on exhibit in Detroit.

George Washington was not born a leader but he carefully made himself into one

The U.S. Capitol as we know it today would never have existed without Jefferson Davis. In many ways, it is his building.

Aldo Leopold's visionary thinking still guides today's environmental stewards.

The Civil War divided Americans into two kinds of people.

Students from around the globe show their mettle at National History Day. 

How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art

Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.

Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."

Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.