In the wake of a supertyphoon, Jillette Leon-Guerrero is rebuilding the humanities on Guam.
By Hannah Putman
Marion Cott works to strengthen community in Kansas.
By Shannon Hunt
Alison Nordström promotes visual literacy in New Hampshire.
By Cynthia Barnes
The Alaska council's director is bridging urban and native cultures.
By Laura Wolff Scanlan
Donald Simmons celebrates the Great Expedition in South Dakota.
Randy Akers: telling South Carolina's story.
By Elisabeth Liljenquist
Jim Quay: sharing history in California.
By Katharine Beutner
Cynthia Buckingham promotes civic culture in Utah.
By Margaret Ford
The humanities go digital in Washington state.
New York's David Cronin works to teach global understanding.
By G. Stephen Thurston
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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