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Transformative Literature
by David Denby, author, journalist, film critic
The Berlin Philharmonic Plays Mahler
by David Denby, author, journalist, film critic
On First Encountering Francis Bacon’s Paintings
by Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
Losing and Regaining the Metaphysical
by David Denby, author, journalist, film critic
Letter from My Grandfather
by Ina Dixon, History United
Censoring Slaughterhouse-Five
by Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
U. S. Representative David Price on the Influence of Reinhold Niebuhr
by U. S. Rep. David Price (NC-4)
The Power of Superheroes
by Jonathan Lethem, novelist
P.O.W. Poetry in Code
by W. Robert Connor, trustee emeritus, President and Director, of the National Humanities Center (1989-2002)
When Breath Becomes Air
by Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
Election Response
by Camille Harmer
Haunted by Homer’s Sirens
by Kevin Guthrie, founder/president, ITHAKA
“I was dragged, kicking and screaming, to a van Gogh exhibition”
by C. Allen Parker, General Counsel, Wells Fargo & Company
Answering the Question “Who Are We?”
by Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
Why We Always Come Back to Abraham Lincoln
by Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
The Day My Interest in Race in America Was Born
by Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
The Golden Line
by Brooke Andrade, Director of the Library, National Humanities Center
Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions in Latin
by Carol Quillen, President, Davidson College
Inspirational Literature
by Marlene Daut, Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia
The First Book I Ever Checked Out of a Library
by Joan Hinde Stewart, President Emerita, Hamilton College
“I saw, in Stephen Dedalus, myself.”
by William Ferris, former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
My Service in the Navy Sparked a Lifelong Interest in Other Cultures
by Lou Nachman, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, NC
Can You Imagine a World Without Birdsong?
by Terry Tempest Williams, author, conservationist, activist
Only Connect
by Sally Dalton Robinson
The Streets of New York Are Like a Library
by Carter Thompson, artist and designer
Coming to Terms with the Experience of War
by William “Bro” Adams, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
How do you get to the stories we are not told?
by Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh