Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Europe's introduction to the Buddhist "way of life."
By Meredith Hindley
On the political and social revolution of lighting up the night.
On the first thousand, tumultuous years of Christianity.
Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece.
By Edited by Meredith Hindley
The legacy of the Battle of Antietam.
Tapping into Roman waters
African-American soldiers in WWI: A broadening experience for many.
On Manhattan's nineteenth-century African-American community
On Hemingway's letters
On the origins of habeas corpus.
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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