A Selective Filmography
By Bruce Bennett
How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.
By Marilyn Ferdinand
It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.
By Randall Fuller
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
By Danny Heitman
How history was made and how it's being written
By Earl Lewis
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
By David Skinner
Oral history, an essential ingredient in capturing state's role in civil rights movement.
By Esther Ferington
How African-American bondage came back after emancipation.
By Lynette Holloway
A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?
By Mary Kay Zuravleff
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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
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