Articles with keyword "United States"
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High Thinking and Low Living
How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.
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Wyeth’s Noble Savage
An excerpt from Picturing America describes how an artist interpreted Cooper's prose.
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A Summer Scene
While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans
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In Defense of Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain.
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The Ballad of Thomas Hart Benton
The prolific, opinionated artist behind The Sources of Country Music.
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The Collector
William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.
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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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The Agitator
William Lloyd Garrison burned the Constitution as he roared against the injustice of slavery.
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When Bram Met Walt
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.