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

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

Cool is still cool. The word, the emotional style, and that whole flavor of cultural cachet remains ascendant after more than half a century.

Two souls on fire fought for justice

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross tells the story of a people whose sense of identity is distinctly apart and distinctly American

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

Before writing a single book, Bento de Spinoza was considered a dangerous thinker