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Explore the Humanities
Websites, apps, and digital projects supported by NEH grants
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The White Pages
America's greatest personal essayist was more than a little shy and intensely self-conscious.
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Paper Trail
On letters, diaries, and other records of the American story at the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Before writing a single book, Bento de Spinoza was considered a dangerous thinker.
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The Rise of the Machines
How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers . . .
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Done with Tolstoy
Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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A Workingman's Poet
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
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Do-It-Yourself Language
Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.
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Pox in the City
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphs.
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The Image of a Writer
Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.
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When Bram Met Walt
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.
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The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
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Not Exactly a Hermit: Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
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Nietzsche Is Dead
The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
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Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.