Award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways antiquity’s spiritual verse can help us to better understand ourselves – and to sit more...

Celebrated film historians and writers Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson share the Five Things They’ve Learned about the people and values that shaped the movie business – and all they uncovered while...

Acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about thinking, writing, and living well.

Award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning and value of freedom by studying the life and writing Frederick Douglass.

Film-maker and producer James Fox shares the Five Things He’s Learned about all that’s certain – and all that remains unknown – in light of the U.S. Defense Department’s continuing investigation...

Writer, author, and professor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. shares the Five Things He’s Learned about keeping connected to the voices and visions of our country’s past – and about James Baldwin’s America...

Acclaimed author and film critic Molly Haskell shares the Five Things She’s Learned about loving film and film criticism during the golden age of film appreciation.

Acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Grace Katz shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to uncover and share the stories that challenge our ideas of history.

Acclaimed journalist and historian Carol Kino shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the rewards and challenges that shaped life for American women after World War II – and the lessons their struggles...

Global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate share the Five Things They’ve Learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many ways to love the movies.

New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how the Dutch founding of New York City shaped the world’s most dynamic metropolis – and continues to impact...

Photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts shares the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the people and communities of the African diaspora.