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Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta

"With Love and Resolution": An Appreciation

The Art of Martin Scorsese

By Glenn Kenny

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Lev Tolstoy, 1908

Done with Tolstoy

Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.

By Kevin Mahnken

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Boxcar Bertha

Knowing the Scorsese

A Selective Filmography

By Bruce Bennett

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Still from "The Red Shoes"

Saving Grace

How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.

By Marilyn Ferdinand

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Poster of Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin crossing the Ohio River.

The First Great American Novel

It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.

By Randall Fuller

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Portrait of Carl Sandburg

A Workingman's Poet

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

By Danny Heitman

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Black Muslim rally, Harlem, 1963

Civil Rights and the Changing World

How history was made and how it's being written

By Earl Lewis

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NAACP parade with marchers carrying a coffin for Jim Crow.

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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Rosa Parks, arrested, Montgomery, December 1, 1955

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

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Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention in August 1964.

Living History in Mississippi

Oral history, an essential ingredient in capturing state's role in civil rights movement.

By Esther Ferington

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