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
The moral and political dilemmas of the time seem so clear in retrospect.
By Adam Kirsch
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
By Michael Adams
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
