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American Icons: The Great Gatsby

This hour-long podcast explores F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and how it became the great American story of our age.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

First Lady, diplomat, and citizen activist, Eleanor Roosevelt also wrote more than 8,000 columns, 580 articles, 27 books, and 100,000 letters.

Lifeguard teaching boy to swim,Highland Park swimming pool 1951

Teenie Harris Archive

Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908–1998) photographed Pittsburgh's African American community from 1935 to 1975.

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders, facing front

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

Trace Lincoln’s development from a country lawyer to the president who would lead the country through the Civil War through his legal briefs, personal letters, and drafts of speeches.

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King’s most significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, public statements, published and unpublished writings.

Map of the Slave Population of the Southern States

Trace the fall of slavery during the Civil War with this interactive online map of emancipation, drawn from events described in official military correspondence, newspapers, wartime letters and diaries.

Cracking the Maya Code

Follow the centuries-long quest to decipher ancient Maya hieroglyphs.

Presidents FDR, Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower

The Presidents

Who was the first US President to give a televised national address? Which president kept jelly beans in the Oval Office? Find out at this multimedia look at the American Presidents.

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A Workingman's Poet
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
Do-It-Yourself Language
Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.
Pox in the City
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphs.
The Image of a Writer
Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.
When Bram Met Walt
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
Not Exactly a Hermit: Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
Nietzsche Is Dead
The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
The Dramatist
Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy
Let Us Now Praise James Agee
The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
To See a Face
Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist.
Into the Deep
U-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II.
The Thing (or Things) About Wendell Berry
An Appreciation by Mark Bittman
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
Deaf Meets Wonderstruck
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
Modern Love
Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
Words of America
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
Henry James and the American Idea
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
California's Cold War Museum
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.