W. Robert Connor
Whatever happened to high culture?
The study of the loftiest cultural achievements is alive and well at the National Humanities Center.

Chris Waters
An essay examining the desire to memorialize the working-class past, the consolidation of the industrial north of England as a site for popular remembrance, and the contribution made to this process by the work of the foremost artist of northern industrial life, Lawrence Stephen Lowry.

Roger Rosenblatt
Who are we in cyberspace? Are we different people as a result of dwelling in virtual reality? The answer, as ever, is: We are as different as we choose to be.

A Conversation with Steven Marcus
In this edited interview aired on Soundings, the National Humanities Center's radio program that ran from 1980 through April 1997, Wayne Pond talks with literary scholar Steven Marcus about his new edition of Hammett's novels and stories, forthcoming from the Library of America.

Pamela H. Simpson
For too long our architectural histories have focused on elite, architect-designed buildings. The story of concrete block, pressed metal, linoleum, and Lincrusta tells us about ordinary buildings and about ordinary people who embraced the products of their age.

Richard Schramm
Teachers are asking themselves where they and what they do fit into the rapidly changing America they encounter everyday in their classrooms. They are wrestling with the big self-reflexive questions of role, purpose, and meaning.