Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.
By Randall Fuller
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
By Anna Maria Gillis
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.
By Meredith Hindley
Students from around the globe show their mettle at National History Day.
The Civil War divided Americans into two kinds of people.
By David Skinner
How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art.
By Doug Harvey
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
George Washington was not born a leader but he carefully made himself into one.
By Edward G. Lengel
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
By Danny Heitman
Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy
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Humboldt in the New World
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.
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