She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi horror.

What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent.

Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic

Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art.

A new book examines centuries of art in Louisiana.

Massachusetts nearly secedes during the War of 1812.

The letters of Robert Frost invite us to reconsider the man behind the poetry.

For 37 years, NEH has been helping Ken Burns make films.

Erik Jorgensen, captain of the Maine Humanities Council.

On the composers of Cabaret and Chicago.

A Conversation with Leon Kass

What Books Are For

Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant.

On the cosmopolitan Benjamin Franklin.

A Conversation with Morris Dickstein

Prince Maximilian of Wied visits Pennsylvania

Copyright and the plight of English publishers

Looking for antiquity in Iowa

A meeting with Ansel Adams sealed a photographer's future

Coon Rapids, Iowa, was crawling with spies.

Revisiting Frederick Douglass's landmark anti-slavery speech of July 5, 1852