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The Odyssey of Ulysses S. Grant

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What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach?

A Monument to the Mother Tongue

POTUS Requests $33.4M to Close National Endowment for Humanities

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Zaydi Manuscript Tradition

Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered

A Monk of the Secular Age

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Ivan Turgenev Was Distrusted by the Left and the Right

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