Toulmin's journey from physicist to philosopher to ethical theorist: an appreciation by Marx W. Wartofsky.
By Marx W. Wartofsky
Toulmin backstage in a USC dorm.
By Meg Sullivan
The monk and his pea plants were just the beginning of the anguish over societal values.
By Doris T. Zallen
Images of a farmland divided by the Civil War come to life on the Internet.
By Jane Aikin
A new play at Boston's Museum of Science explores the myths and the man.
By Amy Lifson
Profiles of the 1996 Charles Frankel Prize Winners: Rita Dove, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Daniel Kemmis, Arturo Madrid, and Bill Moyers.
By Mary Lou Beatty
Excerpts from seven of the NEH's presidential papers projects.
A documentary film chronicles the life of Andrew Carnegie, the steel company mogul who rose from an impoverished childhood to become the richest man in the world.
By Michael Gill
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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
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