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Women of Influence

 NEH Chairman Bruce Cole talked recently with ABC and NPR news analyst Cokie Roberts about her most recent book, Founding Mothers, and the role women played in the early days of the Republic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?

cover of Proud to Be

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A Soldier's Words

An anthology of writings by veterans.

Lady Bird Johnson and hostesses aboard the Lady Bird Special

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Lady Bird Special

The first First Lady to hit the campaign trail without her husband

Portrait of Aaron Burr in 1802

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Burr versus Jefferson versus Marshall

The president accuses his former vice president of treason and tussles with a Supreme Court justice.

Dust jacket for The Edge of the Woods

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"Whose Woods These Are . . . "

Iroquois traveled far and wide.

A still from "The Soul of Youth." 1920

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Film as Argument

The early disputatious days of American movies.

Portrait of Carl Sandburg

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A Workingman's Poet

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

Poster of Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin crossing the Ohio River.

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The First Great American Novel

It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Still from "The Red Shoes"

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Saving Grace

How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.