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The pirate next door.

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

Should American education treat children as individuals or have the same goals for all students?

After 40 years on the radio, what to do next?

2015 National Humanities Medalist

How humanities education supports civic participation

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

A conversation with Ken Burns, the 2016 Jefferson Lecturer

2015 National Humanities Medalist

2015 National Humanities Medalist

Twelve of Our Finest

Beneath the formal exterior of a banker-scholar beat the heart of a tormented poet

In Mississippi, the humanities council takes on tough conversations about history

The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”

An appreciation of the 2017 Jefferson Lecturer

The European landscape made him think of his home state.

Archaeologists in Virginia seek to know more about the lives of slaves who escaped and lived off the land.