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Ever Higher Education

A conversation with Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University

Shelly C. Lowe

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Editor’s Note

David Skinner

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Red Map, Blue Map

In the 1970s and ’80s, geographer Ken Martis mapped every congressional district and color-coded them by political party, going all the way back to the first Congress.

David Skinner

Magazine Article

Underwater at the Aquacade

Hannah Stamler

Blog

NEH/Trans-Atlantic Platform: Democracy, Governance, and Trust

Division of Research Programs

June 21, 2023

Blog

March 2023 Awards in Preservation & Access

Division of Preservation and Access

June 8, 2023

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Noah Webster, Chronicler of Disease

As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as a historian, he searched for the causes of epidemics

David Skinner

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A Slave Memoir Becomes an Opera

South Carolina

Rosalind Early

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The Long Journey Home

Wyoming

Tamara Linse

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William Bartram’s Man-Eating Monster

An early American naturalist’s terrifying account continues to color how the public views an iconic reptile

Mark V. Barrow Jr.

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Revolutionary Rodeo

Agnes de Mille created a ballet inspired by the American West.

Sharon Skeel

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What Can We Learn from Trees?

An interview with Jared Farmer

Humanities Staff

Magazine Article

Oz: America’s Fairy Tale

Laura Wolff Scanlan

Magazine Article

Ken Burns Looks Back at Baseball

Peter Tonguette

Project

Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See

Blog

The Service Member’s Experience: How Humanities Research Illuminates the Sacrifices of Those Who Defend Our Freedom

Division of Research Programs

May 19, 2023

Blog

Chronicling America and the Eskimo Bulletin: Recovering the History of a Residential Boarding School in Alaska

Division of Preservation and Access

May 17, 2023

Project

Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

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Editor's Note

David Skinner

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The 1921 Tulsa Massacre

What Happened to Black Wall Street

Kweku Larry Crowe

Thabiti Lewis

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Rereading Darkwater

W.E.B. DuBois 100 years ago

Chad Williams

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Recent NEH Grants

NEH Staff

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Why Maya Angelou Partnered with Hallmark

For one thing, she liked a challenge

Ayesha K. Hardison

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Aspiring Artists

Amy Lifson

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William Lanson Shaped New Haven

Connecticut

Stacey Close

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“The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer”

How a would-be voter became a civil rights legend

Rosalind Early

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Black Poetry Anthologized

An Interview with Kevin Young

Humanities Staff

Magazine Article

Miss Blackwell Goes to Medical School

An excerpt from The Doctors Blackwell

Janice P. Nimura

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2020 National Humanities Medal

Humanities Staff

Magazine Article

A 1929 Air Derby Helped Female Pilots Break Barriers

Arizona

Mark Athitakis