How Jerome Kern created the Broadway musical is told in a new radio series.
By Maggie Riechers
The painter's photography captures street life during the Depression.
By Amy Lifson
From horses to motorcars, an exhibition chronicles cultural change among the Plateau Indians.
By Sara E. Wilson
The archives of the Chicago Symphony tell the story of money, music, and the men behind the baton.
By Richard Carter
A new exhibition explores the way in which the Adirondacks became Arcadia.
By Rachel Galvin
Edward L. Ayers describes how neighboring towns chose opposite sides in the Civil War.
By Edward L. Ayers
The University of Oklahoma preserves political advertising in the age of television.
Illinois and Idaho celebrate the life of the writer who made the declarative sentence a work of art.
A Montana conference explores the destiny of the West.
By Meredith Hindley
Making the pilgrimage to a repository of the blues.
By Anna Maria Gillis
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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