The music of protest
By Steve Moyer
Modern-day Ojibwe maintain ties with language, cultural tradition
When the reading of "bad books" was a novel experience
Kentucky photographer and folklorist keeps grave houses alive.
Tablets Reveal Ideas of Roman Self-Identity.
The Perseus Digital Library breathes new life into a "dead" language.
Fifteenth-century French painter Jean Fouquet was a curious artist—
In spite of generations of poets and translators' efforts to categorize Federico García Lorca, his talent remains untamed.
Modest Medieval scholar's commentaries on Aristotle come to light after five hundred years
Tracking down a watershed moment for labor.
By Corinne Zeman
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
By Anna Maria Gillis
Done with Tolstoy
Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
By Kevin Mahnken
A Workingman's Poet
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
By Danny Heitman
The Blue Humanities
In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings.
By John R. Gillis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?
By By Danny Heitman