Georges Collinet was a rock ’n’ roll-playing, Cold War DJ; now he's an elder stateman of world music.
By Dan Scheuerman
How two American women changed the stardards of style and scooped the Paris prognosticators.
By Regina Lee Blaszczyk
A group who saved Western art from Nazi looting and a California farmer who redefined ancient warfare are included in the latest list of National Humanities Medalists.
Philip Lampi's lifelong quest to document elections of the early Republic.
By Katherine Mangu-Ward
In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.
By David S. Shields
A sampler of We the People projects from the Founders to Mark Twain to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
By Meredith Hindley
NEH celebrates five years of We the People
By Bruce Cole
Andrew Jackson stares down the national bank and wins.
By Daniel Feller
Abraham Lincoln's legal papers reveal a surprising cache of sundry clients and dramatic litigation.
By Douglas L. Wilson
Not just Torah and gefilte fish: A new film shows the complexity of life as a Jewish American.
By Joseph Epstein
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
