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Don’t Understand Me Too Quickly
by Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Nighthawks at the Museum
by David Denby, author, journalist, film critic
Southern History, Turned Upside Down
by J. Porter Durham, Jr., General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, Global Endowment Management, LP
Sometimes You Just Need to Keep Reading
by Mab Segrest, Professor Emerita, Connecticut College
Finding Freedom from the Familiar
by Hollis Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Where Dreams Were Made and Humanistic Visions Forged
by Stephen G. Hall, Alcorn State University
Discovering How Literature and Art Place Demands on Us
by Dr. Gil Greggs, Director of Academic Programs, St. David’s School, Raleigh NC
On the Anxiety of Influence
by William Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hamilton and the Performance of Poetry
by Thomas Scherer, Consultant, Spencer Capital Holdings
A Lifetime of Humanities Moments
by Peter A. Benoliel, Chairman Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation
Top Secret Rosies
by Anonymous
A Requirement I Started to Love
by Liv McKinney, Duke '20, Biology Major
Learning to Sing Stories
by Juan Felipe Herrera, performance artist, activist, and U.S. Poet Laureate in 2015
Learning How to Read a Poem
by Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California
The Currency of Emotional Intelligence
by Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, 28th Chief Justice of the State of California
Executive Order 9066
by George Takei, actor, author, director, activist
For the First Time It Felt Like Someone Was Writing About Me
by Justin Parmenter, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, NC
“You don’t just run, you run to some place wonderful.”
by Deborah Ross, lawyer & politician
The Second Shelf and Beyond
by Kathryn Hill, President, The Levine Museum of the New South
We All Float On
by Katie Clark, 21, Student
Darkest Before the Dawn
by Natalie Huebel, 22 years old and a student at Texas A&M University.
The Best Motivational Token
by Melanie, 20, Psychology major
Here I Am
by Sydney, 21, student
Not Too Far Off
by Brian Finke, 21, Student at Texas A&M
The world we live in isn't as big as you may think
by George, 21, student
How to Get U.S. Citizenship and the American Dream
by Teresa Kim, History teacher in Vista, California
Response to a response
by Jacob, Johnston 20 years old. College student at Texas A&M University
Haute Couture: Fashion Fair and the Empowerment of the Black Community
by Olympia Friday, Social Media & Strategic Marketing Coordinator, National Humanities Center
Solving the “Very Complicated Puzzle” of How Humanity Lives
by Nancy J. Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania