A Conversation with . . .
The author of The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell,
talks with NEH Chairman Sheldon Hackney about changing conceptions
of heroism and glory.
The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century
An eight-hour documentary details how the clash of Europe's ruling
families destroyed a generation of young men. By Blaine Baggett,
Jay M. Winter, and Joseph Angier
The Scientist behind Poison Gas: The Tragedy of the Habers
A historian speculates about the suicide of a prominent woman
scientist whose husband developed poison gas. By Jeffrey A. Johnson
The Dispute over Nuclear Fission
The achievements of physicist Lise Meitner put her on the path to
a Nobel, but fate took a strange turn. By Ruth Lewin Stone
Blood Brothers: From Typing to Genetics
A deceptively simple system of classifying blood brought Karl Landsteiner
the Nobel medal in 1930. By William S. Schneider