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Articles with keyword "United States"

Michael Anton adjusting tie

Feature

The Dandy

Author Michael Anton speaks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the history and influences behind modern men's fashion.

Elizabeth Brown Pryor (center)

Conversation

Letters From Robert E. Lee

Elizabeth Brown Pryor talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her dual careers as a historian of antebellum America and a highly decorated diplomat working for the State Department.

John Updike

Conversation

The Artist as Showman

Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.

Cartoon showing Pegler charging racketeers with a pen

Feature

Who Was Westbrook Pegler?

The original right-wing takedown artist

Bosnian refugee marching

Statement

New Lives in New England

Refugees in New Hampshire

Portrait of Gouverneur Morris

Feature

Ungoverned Passion

Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.

color postcard of Montana's Broadwater Natatorium circa 1890.

Statement

Big Sky Oasis

Montana's hot springs were pockets of peace and luxury on the frontier.

child in theater

Feature

Deaf Meets Wonderstruck

An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.

View through a bench in Central Park.

Feature

Public Parking

Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.

African-American jockey Jimmy Winkfield astride Alan-A-Dale.

Statement

The Racing Life

Kentucky jockey Jimmy Winkfield fled to Russia to escape Jim Crow.