A Year of Classics Theme & Reading List

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Sea to Shining Sea: An Exploration of America

As the country winds down celebrations of the 250th anniversary of its founding, we have planned a trip across this vast and varying land, letting its authors and thinkers show us some of what the country has had to say for itself. We travel from East to West, from cities to the frontiers, to ask what binds us to--and what gives us distance from--this place, this land, these United States. What do we take from it; what do we give? What stories create the myths and the realities of this beautiful, complicated and persistent country?

Reading List for 2026–27 Year of Classics program

Reading List for “High time to get to sea”
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick