Take a moment this July 4 to reflect ...

7/3/2009 @ 9:14 AM
Lincoln spoke for generations of Americans when he said "I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest." This July Fourth we cannot do better than to visit the National Archives website on the Declaration of Independence.

Beach Reading for the Scholar: Perry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Lionel Trilling, F. O. Matthiessen, R. W. B. Lewis

7/2/2009 @ 9:50 AM
Recommendations from Miller Senior Fellow Mark Bauerlein and Michael Gillespie for books and videos that will both entertain and edify.

Prospective Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities will seek to "uplift the vocabulary of American discourse ... celebrate differences in thought"

6/17/2009 @ 7:49 AM
Jim Leach nominated to succeed Bruce Cole and oversee expanded $170 million budget requested for coming year.

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