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- William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (2018) https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/winter/feature/the-thinker-who-believed-in-doing-0 39 comments
- Joseph Priestley created revolutionary "maps" of time https://www.neh.gov/article/joseph-priestley-created-revolutionary-maps-time 10 comments
- The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll Is Found at Sam Phillips's Sun Records (2016) https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/januaryfebruary/statement/the-birth-rock-%E2%80%98n%E2%80%99-roll-found-sam-phillips%E2%80%99s-sun-records 25 comments
- Where Johnny Cash came from https://www.neh.gov/article/where-johnny-cash-came 83 comments
- Impertinent Questions with Kristine Harper (2008) https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2008/septemberoctober/iq/impertinent-questions-kristine-harper 2 comments
- Nineteenth century scientists set out to solve the "problem of American storms" https://www.neh.gov/article/storm-patrol 58 comments
- Caravaggio Was the Other Michelangelo of the Renaissance https://www.neh.gov/article/caravaggio-was-other-michelangelo-renaissance 43 comments
- All History Is Revisionist History https://www.neh.gov/article/all-history-revisionist-history 45 comments
- The writers who translated Goethe became some of the best writers in English https://www.neh.gov/article/cult-goethe 75 comments
- Buddha and Mind https://www.neh.gov/article/buddha-and-mind 105 comments
- Suburban Dwelling: John Cheever was the bard of the backyard https://www.neh.gov/article/suburban-dwelling 9 comments
- What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach? https://www.neh.gov/article/what-did-bach-sound-bach 72 comments
- Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered https://www.neh.gov/article/first-draft-king-james-bible 231 comments
- Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds https://www.neh.gov/article/ursula-k-le-guin-was-creator-worlds 61 comments
- Ivan Turgenev Was Distrusted by the Left and the Right https://www.neh.gov/article/ivan-turgenev-was-distrusted-left-and-right 2 comments
- The American Circus in All Its Glory https://www.neh.gov/article/american-circus-all-its-glory 8 comments
- Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/fall/feature/edgar-allan-poe’s-hatchet-jobs 2 comments
- Like modern democracies, ancient Greek democracy had an anger problem https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martha-nussbaum-jefferson-lecture 73 comments
- Press Release NEH Statement on Proposed FY 2021 Budget https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-statement-proposed-fy-2021-budget 4 comments politics
- NEH Statement on Proposed FY 2021 Budget: POTUS Requests $33.4M to Close National Endowment for Humanities https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-statement-proposed-fy-2021-budget 9 comments politics
- Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered https://www.neh.gov/article/first-draft-king-james-bible 6 comments worldnews
- A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/tiny-village-in-vermont-was-the-perfect-spot-hide-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn 3 comments books
- The Thinker Who Believed in Doing https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/winter/feature/the-thinker-who-believed-in-doing-0 7 comments philosophy
- Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs: The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review and spent years mocking “The Literati of New York City” https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/fall/feature/edgar-allan-poe%E2%80%99s-hatchet-jobs 5 comments books
- Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame; Like modern democracies, ancient Greek democracy had an anger problem https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martha-nussbaum-jefferson-lecture 4 comments politics
- A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/winter/feature/lot-what-known-about-pirates-not-true-and-lot-what-true-not-known 641 comments history
- Did He Even Know He Was Shakespeare? http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/januaryfebruary/feature/did-he-even-know-he-was-shakespeare 23 comments history
- King Tut: A Classic Blockbuster Museum Exhibition That Began as a Diplomatic Gesture http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/septemberoctober/feature/king-tut-classic-blockbuster-museum-exhibition-began-diplom 4 comments history
- The History of the Stamp Act Shows How Indians Led to the American Revolution http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/julyaugust/feature/the-history-the-stamp-act-shows-how-indians-led-the-american-revo 10 comments history
- In the 1930s, Radio Station WLW in Ohio Was America’s One and Only “Super Station” http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/in-the-1930s-radio-station-wlw-in-ohio-was-americas-one-and-only-sup 3 comments history
- Chattanooga versus the Supreme Court http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/novemberdecember/feature/chattanooga-versus-the-supreme-court 4 comments history
- Politics and war brought Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever closer http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/septemberoctober/feature/politics-and-war-brought-teddy-roosevelt-and-franklin-delan 4 comments history
- Done with Tolstoy http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/marchapril/feature/done-tolstoy 7 comments books
- The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/novemberdecember/feature/the-islamic-scholar-who-gave-us-modern-philosophy 18 comments philosophy
- A Homepage for Philosophy--the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy vs Wikipedia http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/januaryfebruary/feature/homepage-philosophy 5 comments philosophy
- Reading the Civil War http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2011-11/readingcivilwar.html 7 comments history
- The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2011-11/islamicscholar.html 6 comments philosophy
- How Did Robert E. Lee Become an American Icon? http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2011-07/robertelee.html 36 comments history
- Humans don't want to be moral -- they seek power, and social status by appearing to be more moral and altruistic than others is one path to this. http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/wolfe/lecture.html 60 comments cogsci
- Violent but Charming http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2010-01/oldenglish.html 3 comments linguistics