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Map of the Slave Population of the Southern States

Trace the fall of slavery during the Civil War with this interactive online map of emancipation, drawn from events described in official military correspondence, newspapers, wartime letters and diaries.

Panama Canal

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower.

Donie Bush, Detoit, 1913, black and white photo

Baseball

The story of America told in nine innings through Ken Burns' examination of the national pastime.

Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze

The American Revolution

America's independence from Great Britain was a decisive turning point in world history. Explore the causes, character, and consequences of the American Revolution.

The Supreme Court

Explore the history of the Supreme Court, get a behind-the-scenes view of its workings from interviews with Justices, test your knowledge of landmark decisions, and predict the outcome of future cases

Afropop Worldwide

From Bikutsi to Reggaeton: Explore the culture and history of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora through music.

Whale fishery: attacking a right whale, Currier & Ives

Laura Jernegen: Girl on a Whaleship

Learn about life on a 1860s whaling ship through the eyes of 6-year old Laura Jernegan.

1910 painting by Edward Percy Moran of Battle of New Orleans

The War of 1812

For two and a half years, Americans fought against the British, Canadian colonists, and native nations in a war that divided the United States so deeply that the nation almost broke apart.

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Take Me There Now!

Newton, The Last Magician
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
Let Us Now Praise James Agee
The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
Burying Molière
How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
To See a Face
Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist.
The Swamp Doctor
Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron.
Julien Green: The End of a World
As Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.
Nietzsche Is Dead
The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
Into the Deep
U-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II.
The Thing (or Things) About Wendell Berry
An Appreciation by Mark Bittman
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
Humanities on the Brain
New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.
Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
Deaf Meets Wonderstruck
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
Modern Love
Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
Words of America
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
Henry James and the American Idea
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
A Diplomatic Education
Early in the Civil War, the Union narrowly avoided war with Britain.
The Everlasting Bible
New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.
Public Parking
Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.
California's Cold War Museum
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.