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Photo portrait of Barbara Tuchman

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The Dramatist

By Meredith Hindley

Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy

cover of Unique Slant of Light

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Southern Imagination

By Amy Lifson

A new book examines centuries of art in Louisiana.

Asa Carter

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Self-made Man

By Kevin Mahnken

How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.

Wendell Berry

Conversation

Wendell Berry, Landsman

NEH Chairman Jim Leach sits down with writer and farmer Wendell Berry, this year's Jefferson Lecturer.

"Disatisfied": a woodblock illustration by Lafcadio Hearn

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Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans

By Danny Heitman

The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.

 

book cover

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Girl Guides

By Steve Moyer

When the reading of "bad books" was a novel experience

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Song of the Critic

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

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Interesting Mustard

The rise of the restaurant.

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Descent into Happiness

American writer Richard Ford discusses The Sportswriter

The cast of <em>Dr. Sweet's Tinderbox</em>

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Reading the Sweet Trial

By Martin Kohn

The Ossian Sweet Story is the jubject of Kevin Boyle's National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.