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Articles with keyword "twentieth century"

"City Life" by Victor Arnautoff

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New Deal Murals

Meaningful work for Depression-era artists

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Editor's Note, March/April 2013

Scorsese blurs the line between entertainment and art.

Black Muslim rally, Harlem, 1963

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Civil Rights and the Changing World

How history was made and how it's being written

The Grapes of Wrath's Tom Joad can't find work at a camp.

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Filming the American Novel

From The Great Gatsby to Sister Carrie, writers tell stories of social climbers and fortune hunters.

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Remembering Mary Lou Beatty

"Try again"

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Translating Politics

Political philosopher Harvey Mansfield and NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discuss the power of princes and the origins of modern government.

During a performance at the American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA

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Shakespearetown

Ralph Alan Cohen and the American Shakespeare Center want to turn the sweet little town of Staunton, Virginia, into the world capital of Shakespearean theater.

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Do-It-Yourself Language

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

Zennon Hill in Cornwall

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Dear Amy,

"Congenital understanding" existed between D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell

Bram Stoker in 1906

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When Bram Met Walt

Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.