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Detail from "Journey of the Magi"

Faces of the Renaissance

A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?

By Mary Kay Zuravleff

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letter press type

Do-It-Yourself Language

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

By Michael Adams

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The Eye of a Lady by Anonymous, ca. 1800

The Mysterious Miss Austen

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

By Meredith Hindley

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Scene from "The Abolitionists"

The Agitator

William Lloyd Garrison burned the Constitution as he roared against the injustice of slavery.

By James Williford

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Hand showing small pox pustules

Pox in the City

From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphs.

By Sam Kean

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Performance of <em>Twelfth Night</em>

Shakespeare in Six Parts

Actors and Scholars explore the hidden wonders of more than a half dozen plays.

By David Kipen

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Collage of images suggesting the humanities.

Looking for Truth in Utah

How one university course has affected a generation of mostly Mormon students.

By Jean Cheney

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Black Muslim rally, Harlem, 1963

Civil Rights and the Changing World

How history was made and how it's being written

By Earl Lewis

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NAACP parade with marchers carrying a coffin for Jim Crow.

From Freedom to Equality with NEH

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

By David Skinner

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Rosa Parks, arrested, Montgomery, December 1, 1955

From Freedom to Equality Around the Nation

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

By David Skinner

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