Humanities Staff

Walt Whitman on 19th Century New York

Conflict Endured during Colonial Period in Virginia over Morality of Christians Enslaving Other Christians

Disney parking garage is world's largest.

An excerpt from the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book

William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.

Thomas Saunders, Wall Street titan-turned-philanthropist, and his irrepressible wife, Jordan

2010 National Humanities Medalists

On Homer and the mortals and gods who fill his tales

NEH Chairman Jim Leach talks with Drew Gilpin Faust, daughter of the South, president of Harvard, and this year's Jefferson Lecturer.