A soldier home from the wars
The AP assigns the right reporter to cover the interment of a World War I soldier at the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1921.
Pulitzer Stories
Writings on the winners, finalists, and history of the Pulitzer Prizes
Danielle Allen: 'Along this path lies hope'
Text of Allen's Pulitzer Centennial Keynote, delivered at the annual awards ceremony on October 13, 2016
Ted Kooser: A poet of connection
As part of the Pulitzer Centennial Campfires Initiative, the South Dakota Humanities Council commissioned a series of essays about prize winners. Christine Stewart-Nuñez writes about her poetry teacher.
Home-schooled in history
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s calling seemed inevitable, but only in retrospect.
Death penalty can be hard on those who carry it out
The Newsday columnist Jim Dwyer looks south for a lesson on capital punishment.
Exploring larger worlds: The exuberant realism of Michael Chabon
The South Dakota Humanities Council commissioned essays on Pulitzer winners as part of its Centennial Campfire project. Read Black Hills State University Professor Vincent King's thoughts on the 2001 Fiction winner.
The sad years of President Lyndon B. Johnson
Philip Geyelin reflected on LBJ's legacy 'from the first crisis in Panama to Santo Domingo and South Vietnam, from the wild campaign of 1964 to the triumphs in Congress, the protests on the campus, the riots in the cities and the sudden abdication in 1968.'
The question of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the 21st century
A look at Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's prize-winning biography, 'American Prometheus,' courtesy of the South Dakota Humanities Council.
‘I’d rather look at art than anything else’
A New York art critic who stuck to what she loved — and stuck to her guns.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a name ‘flowing and full of meaning’
In the creator of 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin,' a critic and a biographer both discover a 19th century author to admire.
