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The National Council on the Humanities is charged with a lofty mission.

She takes a public historian's view of the world.

Endowment's great mission and growing achievements are reviewed

Tocqueville is still trenchant.

Hemingway on a bicycle

One scholar’s lifetime of devotion to the letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First in a series: Revisiting the Spring 1971 issue of Humanities

How the state humanities councils expanded and helped fulfill the mission of NEH

A new anthology of African-American writing reveals black lives in the Midwest.

Los Angeles elected its first black mayor with a multicultural coalition.

Ken Burns’s The Civil War Turns 25.

The origins of the Library of America were a messy business.

Anyone could walk in and record their song at small studio in Memphis.

The Little Prince author, a famous pilot, wrote for adults too.

When the boy-king was the hottest ticket in town

What Teaching Political Philosophy and Efficiency Have to Do with Each Other.

As technology advances, doomsaying remains constant.

Yes, the younger generation loves that old time jazz, but why?

A writer goes in search of W.A.R. Goodwin

The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World.

How the New Deal paved the way for the Great Society and the creation of a federal agency devoted to the humanities

Courting beauty at the Walters Art Museum.

An NEH-funded film revisits the Puritan Separatists who arrived aboard the Mayflower.

(It was George Plimpton who brought them together.)

“Writing by American Warriors” updates soldier lit in a new volume of veterans’ writing.