Working to bring empathy back to civic discussions

Frank Lloyd Wright created Taliesin West from the empty desert

Samuel Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small . . . and to his own despicable treatment of women.

A divided movement brought about the Nineteenth Amendment

How the story itself came out.

Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities / Posted June 14, 2019

The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day

How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not.

The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families | Posted April 26, 2019

The poet in his final years | Posted April 17, 2019

King Oliver and the Great Migration | Posted April 8, 2019

His ideas altered the education of children worldwide  

An interview with Melanie Randolph Miller

Master Conservator

Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America

A new documentary shines a light on the irrepressible singer, dancer, comedian, actor, and civil rights activist. | Posted February 26, 2019

Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source.  |  Posted February 22, 2019