Virginia Carter promotes her state's history with Chautauqua.
By Sarah C. Vos
Montana native Ken Egan promotes civic dialog across his state.
By Perri Knize
Gale Peterson’s plan to teach high school history had one fatal flaw. Not his B.S. in History and Government from Iowa State University.
By Bill Eichenberger
Ken Sullivan stresses the role of the Civil War in the formation of his state.
By James E. Casto
Kansas's Julie Mulvihill travels the state stumping for the humanities.
By Steven Hill
Through Georgia's online encyclopedia, Jamil Zainaldin helps disseminate the state's historical gems.
By Mary J. Loftus
Dena Wortzel finds common ground between rural and urban communities.
By Jenny Price
Poet Shelley Crisp brings her passion for place to North Carolina.
By Jim Schlosser
Peter Gilbert recruits top scholars to Vermont's monthly gatherings.
By Sarah Stewart Taylor
Gregory W. Kimura bridges urban and rural worldviews with humanities programming.
By David Holthouse
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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