A Denver festival blends visual and musical media.
By Jennifer Bay
A photography exhibition recalls one of Maine's lost industries.
By Charles Calhoun
His unorthodox ways in the classroom changed the course of history for generations of Harvard students.
By Jack N. Rakove
How the word "Liberty" moved from a spiritual definition to a revolutionary one.
By Eric Foner
An exhibition shows the lesser-known side of a young, ambitious George Washington.
By Meredith Hindley
Visiting the author of the Buru Quartet under house arrest in Jakarta.
By David Paul Ragan
The poetry of Viet Nam connects a land and its people.
By Fred Marchant
Soviet women who fought in World War II tell their stories in an exhibition in Ohio.
By Erin Erickson
A gallery of California notables are recreated in Chautauqua performances for the state's sesquicentennial.
Some forty-niners found instant wealth in California, but for most the trek west meant hardship and loss.
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