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Explore the Humanities
Websites, apps, and digital projects supported by NEH grants
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How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal?Cool is still cool. The word, the emotional style, and that whole flavor of cultural cachet remains ascendant after more than half a century.
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Susan Sontag, Essayist and So Much ElseA new film on Susan Sontag gives an intimate look at her passions.
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Old Friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Made History Together.Two souls on fire fought for justice
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The Quiet Greatness of Eudora WeltyEven toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art.
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Africans in AmericaThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross tells the story of a people whose sense of identity is distinctly apart and distinctly American.
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The DramatistBarbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy
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The White PagesAmerica's greatest personal essayist was more than a little shy and intensely self-conscious.
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Paper TrailOn letters, diaries, and other records of the American story at the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Why Spinoza Was ExcommunicatedBefore writing a single book, Bento de Spinoza was considered a dangerous thinker.
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The Rise of the MachinesHow to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers . . .
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Done with TolstoyFamed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
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Humboldt in the New WorldJourneying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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A Workingman's PoetFrankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
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Do-It-Yourself LanguageEsperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.
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The Image of a WriterHerman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.