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Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009 |
A Conversation with Jim Leach After thirty years of service in Congress, James A. Leach has been appointed by President Obama to head the National Endowment for the Humanities.   |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
James Williford |
Cowhunting in Florida Hank Mattson will perform his poetry and discuss the history of Florida cowhunting on December 3, at the Emerson Center in Vero Beach. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Laura Wolff Scanlan |
Big Circus in a Little Town With the arrival of the railroad and the marketing prowess of impresario P. T. Barnum, circuses became the most popular form of public entertainment, performing in small towns across the country. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Sarah Stewart Taylor |
Vermont's Peter Gilbert Ask Peter Gilbert about the biggest challenge in offering humanities programs in Vermont and he immediately brings up the state's famously wintry weather. |
Chemistry World
November 2009 |
Poetic science A year as a Royal Literary Fund fellow based in the chemistry department of Edinburgh University, UK, has made me ponder the connections between science and poetry. |
TIME Europe
November 2, 2009
James Poniewozik |
Balloon Boy's Lesson: The New American Dream Behind the Balloon Boy fiasco was a family in hot pursuit of the new American Dream. Only in the reality-TV era has unstable behavior become a valid career choice. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009 |
Curio New research from scholars on the English Renaissance, Massachusetts history, German-Americans, and impressions of Moscow, Idaho. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Laura Wolff Scanlan |
Around the Nation/ Hawai'i Information on Hawai`i Creole, known on the islands as Pidgin and news about an upcoming exhibition of works by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Impertinent Questions With Kathleen Fitzpatrick A professor of media studies at Pomona College is one of the brains behind one of the brains behind the National Endowment for the Humanities funded MediaCommons, a digital scholarly network for students and academics. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Who Said It: Violins of Autumn In this edition of Who Said It?, we harvest literature and history to reap the ways the season serves as marker and metaphor for the passage of time. Here's a quiz to test your knowledge. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009 |
A Conversation with Jill Lepore Lepore describes how she became the person she is today: a well-known scholar of early American history, a winner of the Bancroft Prize and the author of several distinguished books. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Carl Smith |
Taming the Savage City An obscure frontier outpost in the early 1830s, Chicago grew to 4,470 residents by 1840. A mere fifty years later, it was America's second city, with a population of 1,099,850. By 1909, the count was two million. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
David Holthouse |
Alaska's Gregory W. Kimura To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Alaska's statehood, the Alaska Humanities Forum is publishing Alaska at 50: The Past, Present, and Next Fifty Years of Statehood, a collection of essays by artists, politicians, and activists selected by Kimura, who edited the work. |
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