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Don’t Understand Me Too Quickly
by Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
The Perfect Invitation
by Patricia Matthew, 49, English professor living in Brooklyn, New York
Seeing Fellini’s Amarcord Was the Greatest Cultural Moment of My Life
by Roddy Doyle, author
The First Book I Ever Checked Out of a Library
by Joan Hinde Stewart, President Emerita, Hamilton College
The Beauty of Love and Human Connection
by Corynn Fitzpatrick, 18, student
Finding Freedom from the Familiar
by Hollis Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Solving the “Very Complicated Puzzle” of How Humanity Lives
by Nancy J. Hirschmann, professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania
Can You Imagine a World without Birdsong?
by Terry Tempest Williams, author, conservationist, activist
The Day My Interest in Race in America Was Born
by Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
Discovering Contested Territory Through Vietnamese Folk Poetry
by Kevin Shuford
Southern History, Turned Upside Down
by J. Porter Durham, Jr., General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, Global Endowment Management, LP
Feeling the American Revolution
by Steve Oreskovic, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District
Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions in Latin
by Carol Quillen, President, Davidson College
What Does It Mean to Be Southern?
by Julie Mullis, Wilkes Community College
Writing is My Activism
by Luis Rodriguez, poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2014
Taking Russian and Other Happy Accidents
by James Hackett, CEO, Alta Mesa Resources
Darkest Before the Dawn
by Natalie Huebel, 22 years old and a student at Texas A&M University.
The Ho Chi Minh and Marcus Garvey Connection
by Solomon C. Williams, 38 years old, teacher of high school American Government and Economics
Set On a Path by Socrates
by Thérèse Cory, associate professor of philosophy at Notre Dame University
A Lifelong Passion and Appreciation for History
by Ben Vinson III, Provost and Executive Vice President of Case Western Reserve University
Answering the Question “Who Are We?”
by Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
My Front Porch Looking In
by Zachary Fine, 19, Student
“For the Sake of a Cloud”
by Skye Shirley, age 28, Latin Teacher in Boston, MA
A House
by Alejandro, 19, student
The Power of Superheroes
by Jonathan Lethem, novelist
Don't Close Your Eyes
by Julie Rakowitz, 21, Programs Coordinator Assistant at the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
When Breath Becomes Air
by Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
How MTV Helped End Apartheid
by Patrick Touart, born 1973, public school teacher, Pittsylvania County Virginia