QUESTION: Talk about the Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier. WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the ...

Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern ...

"The gates at the entry to Auschwitz had the words Arbeit Macht Frei written over them. It translates as ‘Work makes you free.’ It was a horribly ironic statement. It was cruel." Melvin Jules Bukiet ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

Perhaps it was the abundance of concrete, or the year-round painting season, or the city full of Mexican workers that made Los Angeles the place where murals began to be a predominant art form. Or ...

Emily Taguchi: How did you become involved in Cambodian silk making? Kikuo Morimoto: It started in 1980. When Cambodians began fleeing to refugee camps on the Thai border, I began volunteering at the ...

You say potato ....and I say spud. A look at the different schools of thought on language usage.

Linguists study "crossing" to understand how and why individuals copy the speech of another group. "Borrowing" another language variety is often an expression of identity. Cecelia Cutler explains. Can ...

Learn why financial literacy is more than balancing checkbooks and comparing prices.

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden jerk ...

Religion in ancient Egypt explained the mysteries of the universe and acted as a social glue. The priesthood helped preserve old traditions that underpinned Egyptian culture and its hierarchy helped ...