The man was remembered, but not his cause.
By James C. Cobb
A look at "Gifts of the Sultan" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
By Doug Harvey
Buried Treasure in Austin.
By Brett Campbell
A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust.
By David W. Blight
Telling 436 stories in one documentary.
By Amy Lifson
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.
By David C. Engerman
The Popular Front and American culture.
By Michael Kazin
Lev Manovich uses supercomputing to see the big picture.
By James Williford
Richard Brookhiser shows the relevance of Alexander Hamilton to our modern lives.
By Andrew Ferguson
One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.
By Jerome Loving
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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