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Jerome Robbins, choreographer of West Side Story, transformed the Broadway musical with his distinctively American...
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Browse selected letters from three decades of correspondence between John and Abigail Adams chronicling their extraordinary...
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It took John James Audubon 18 years to produce his monumental book, The Birds of America. See how he prepared a...
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Learn about life on a 1860s whaling ship through the eyes of 6-year old Laura Jernegan.
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Explore composer Leonard Bernstein’s life and career through his correspondence and interviews with those who knew and worked...
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Walt Whitman advised readers to “look for me under your bootsoles.” Find him in the locations associated with...
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Louisa May Alcott hobnobbed with Emerson and Thoreau, wrote pulp fiction, and persuaded Dorothea Dix to waive a ban on single...
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Few architects have had more impact on the American city than Daniel Burnham. Learn about the life and legacy of this visionary...
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Published 400 years ago, the King James Bible is one of the most-read texts in the English language.
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See the social networks that connected Isaac Newton and John Locke, James Boswell and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Aaron Burr and...
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Browse Twain’s letters, manuscripts, and autobiography at the online archives of the personal papers of America’s most famous...
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View clips of celebrated silent film star Mary Pickford, see what a 1909 screen test was like, and hear historians discuss...
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