A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
By Katy Werlin
The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing
By Steve Moyer
Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.
By Anna Maria Gillis
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
By Katherine Eastland
Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
By Greg Allen
The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.
By Danny Heitman
Early in the Civil War, the Union narrowly avoided war with Britain.
By Meredith Hindley
New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.
By Paul Gutjahr
Averroës' writings on Aristotle shaped Western philosophy as we know it.
By Robert Pasnau
To understand her, you need to understand Eatonville—and vice versa.
By Anne Trubek
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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.
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