CHICAGO POEMS, published by Carl Sandburg in 1916, is an ode to a city. It's a clear eyed and unapologetic love letter: where you tell your true-love you love them not in spite of their imperfections but because of them. Sandburg starts Chicago Poems with "Chicago." Read it here and see its opening stanza visualized in a series of poster art.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe in pictures.

They call The Joffrey Ballet “America’s Company of Firsts.” The first dance company to perform at the White House. The first to appear on television. The first American company to visit Russia. The first classical dance company to go multimedia. The first to commission a rock ‘n’ roll ballet. The first and only dance company to appear on the cover of Time. And the first company to have had a major motion picture based on it, Robert Altman’s The Company. See The Joffrey's moments of "firsts" through the years.

It's the life and times of Carl Sandburg on the AM website: Watch the film and see extended video interviews with the likes of Pete Seeger and the late and great Studs Terkel; hear Sandburg perform and sing in video and audio web features; read curated selections of his writing; plus more--Sandburg's words and world visualized in a series of digital posters, essays, and a photo exploration of the Sandburg archives.

An exploration of the Carl Sandburg Archive from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

See stunning images of the completed Suzhou Museum, including images of the Chinese garden and rock landscape designs innovated by Pei.

View photos shot during the making of the "Glass: A Portrait of Philip Glass in Twelve Parts."

View photos of Warner Bros. productions, from the studio's humble but ambitious beginnings to its blockbusters of today.

AMERICAN MASTERS filmmakers went looking for the real life locales that inspired iconic Peanuts images. See them here.