A boy newly arrived in Miami reads a hotel sign on Collins Avenue: No Jews. No Dogs. He is old enough to understand it instantly. Decades later, as Rabbi Ed Farber, he traces that sign — and the values that made it possible, and the values that made it wrong — back to the first chapters of Genesis. A Heritage Film Project documentary.

Originally blacklisted in Argentina and now the most widely viewed film in the Heritage Film Project catalogue, Evita (2005) achieved its unusual evenness of tone through a single deliberate choice: the script was written in English rather than Spanish — the director's first screenplay in his second language. A close reading of how that linguistic distance produced the most balanced portrait yet of one of the twentieth century's most polarizing political figures.

This article is not an argument for restoring the former name or returning the monument. Reasonable people may still disagree about symbols in public space. But we should all agree that history must be based on what we can prove — not on what we “find fair to assume.”

At the heart of that story stands Lucy Ann Sutton, cousin to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her recollections, published in the New York Observer on August 4, 1887, constitute one of the few intimate, emotionally textured accounts of Hawthorne’s formative years.

A Buffalo Sunday newspaper article from the late 19th century offers a vivid account of the premiere of Niagara…

Lucy Ann Sutton had a long line of descendants, and my children stand at the very end of that line.

This is a film about a US soldier that in the midst of defeat during the Battle of the Bulge, dared to dream of a better world.