Lady Bird Special

The first First Lady to hit the campaign trail without her husband

By Meredith Hindley

Majoring in History

A visit to Chestertown, Maryland.

By David Skinner
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

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