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Articles with keyword "twentieth century"

French singer/songwriter Leo Ferre

Curio

Liberating Experience

By Steve Moyer

The music of protest

Curio

Song of the Critic

From The Willa Cather Archive, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Curio

Descent into Happiness

American writer Richard Ford discusses The Sportswriter

Curio

She's Crafty

Domesticity on the rise in Oregon.

Photograph of Kittie Wilkins

Statement

Woman of the West

By Elizabeth Martin

The Horse Queen of Idaho.

Michael Anton adjusting tie

Feature

The Dandy

Author Michael Anton speaks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the history and influences behind modern men's fashion.

John Updike

Conversation

The Artist as Showman

Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.

Cartoon showing Pegler charging racketeers with a pen

Feature

Who Was Westbrook Pegler?

By David Witwer

The original right-wing takedown artist

Sandra Spanier

IQ

Impertinent Questions with Sandra Spanier

By Meredith Hindley

On Hemingway's letters

child in theater

Feature

Deaf Meets Wonderstruck

By Katherine Eastland

An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.