A Workingman's Poet

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

By Danny Heitman

Mickey Ramps It Up

Disney parking garage is world's largest.
Done with Tolstoy

Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.

By Kevin Mahnken
The First Great American Novel

It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.

By Randall Fuller
The Public Historian

How Jill Lepore went from Harvard office temp to Harvard professor.
"With Love and Resolution": An Appreciation

The Art of Martin Scorsese

By Glenn Kenny
Civil Rights and the Changing World

How history was made and how it's being written

By Earl Lewis
From Freedom to Equality Around the Nation

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

By David Skinner
From Freedom to Equality with NEH

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

By David Skinner
The Mysterious Miss Austen

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

By Meredith Hindley
When Bram Met Walt

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

By Meredith Hindley

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