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EDITOR'S NOTE
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE KNOWABLE LINCOLN In the 1995 Hollywood movie Copycat, the killer tells Sigourney Weaver's character, "Did you know, Helen, that there are more books written about Jack the Ripper than Abraham Lincoln?" Hardly believable at the time, it is even less true today, as the pace of books ...
Curio
Jan 01, 2009; ... MR. MANNERS From The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, ed. Theodore J. Crackel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2007. Reprinted with permission of University of Virginia Press. At George Washington's request, Alexander Hamilton offers the newly ...
HISTORIAN FOR HIRE
Jan 01, 2009; ... A conversation with Phil Cantelon Scholar-entrepreneur Phil Cantelon has discovered that it is possible to make research and writing pay. In 198G, he and three colleagues hung a shingle for their services as historians, building a business whose clients would eventually range from the ...
THE Utterly Civilized Wilder
Jan 01, 2009; ... A writer of his time-and ours When playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder was young, he looked old. At age twenty-four, he was balding, pear-shaped, and bespectacled. His dress was that of a middle-aged banker. Nor did he come to be less of a fuddy-duddy as he aged. Yet, as an ...
LINCOLN THE GREAT
Jan 01, 2009; ... THOUGH HE DIDN'T LOOK THAT WAY AT THE TIME THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND THE ENIGMATIC MAN whose election in 1 860 precipitated it hold an inexhaustible interest for us. Thousands of volumes on both subjects have streamed out of publishing houses in the past century and a half, covering ...
Lincoln's Centennial
Jan 01, 2009; ... AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ON FEBRUARY 1 2, 1 909, THE FORTS around New York Harbor, the battleships in port, and the National Guard field batteries fired a salute in honor of Abraham Lincoln's centenary. At noon the Gettysburg Address was read in New York City's public schools. Booker T ....
GREAT ART, NEW START
Jan 01, 2009; ... Since the Detroit Institute of Arts opened its newly renovated museum, attendance has jumped from an average of 350,000 visitors per year to a record 532,273 visitors between November 10, 2007, and October 26, 2008. A $40,000 grant from NEH helped the museum reinstall its European collection as ...
REACHING ACROSS THE POND
Jan 01, 2009; ... The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom formally joined forces to support scholarly collaboration and research in the humanities. AHRC, a grant-giving arm of the British government, provides approximately £100 million ...
Who Said It?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Presidential Love Letters Edition When they are defending their policies or the honor of their country, American presidents can get downright testy. But they have a softer side, which they show to the women who have captured their hearts. Below are snippets from letters written by ...
CHAIRMAN'S CORNER
Jan 01, 2009; ... Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Bruce Cole was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush at the White House in November. The award, established in 1969, recognizes citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service for the nation. At the ...
In Focus: California's Ralph Lewin
Jan 01, 2009; ... RALPH LEWIN HAS BEEN STEPPING INTO STORIES ALL HIS LIFE. As the son of a German-born mother and a Jewish father whose family fled Russia during the pogroms of the nineteenth century, Lewin learned to think of himself early on as "someone who was able to bring two very different histories and ...
Impertinent Questions with William M. Reddy
Jan 01, 2009; ... William M. Reddy has made a career of demonstrating how honor, love, shame, fear, and desire operate as historical forces. In The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevoiutionary France, 1814-1848 and The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for trie History of Emotions, he shows how ...
THE NEW HERE
Jan 01, 2009; ... A VISIT WITH SABIHA AL KHEMIR IN AN ESSAY PREFACING THE CATALOG for the 2006 exhibition "From Cordoba to Samarqand" at the Louvre, Sabiha Al Khemir writes of the "new here": the shift in surroundings that occurs as objects become removed from their original time and place to take up ...
Dancing American
Jan 01, 2009; ... Jerome Robbins built a new style from classical and modern parts When the curtain goes up on Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free, the authence gazes at a set that evokes New York City in the 1940s: a quiet corner, an empty bar, a lamppost. A recording of a blues singer plays in the background ....
TEN WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: 2008 National Humanities Medalists
Jan 01, 2009; ... CARETAKERS. THEY PRESERVE KNOWLEDGE AND ENSURE THE LONGEVITY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING. THEY ARE THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDALISTS AND THEY TAKE THE DUTIES OF CARETAKING VERY SERIOUSLY. THE GROUP INCLUDES SCHOLARS, PHILANTHROPISTS, JOURNALISTS, A RADIO PERSONALITY, A ...
Around the Nation
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Roundup of Activities Sponsored by the State Humanities Councils ARIZONA Play Ball THE CACTUS LEAGUE, the group of Major League Baseball teams that hold their spring training in Arizona, got its start in 1946 when the Cleveland Indians moved their camp to Tucson, ...
ON JEREMY IRONS'S CHEEKBONES
Sep 01, 2008; ... The arts and the humanities seem to have much in common. Like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, two cultural agencies of the federal government located in the same building in Washington, the arts and the humanities are taken to be neighbors: as ...
Curio
Sep 01, 2008; ... FROM REVIVAL TO ROCK 'N' ROLL In the early days of rock, British musicians heard the call of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. NEH fellow and George Washington University professor Gayle F. Wald describes the gospel diva's influence in Shout, Sister, Shout! (Beacon Press). ROSETTA THARPE ...
The Revisionist
Sep 01, 2008; ... Amity Shlaes takes a new look at the New Deal BRUCE COLE: If somebody asked, 'What do you do?,' how would you answer? AMITY SHLAES: I'm a writer. One of the strengths of the Council on Foreign Relations, where I work, is that journalists and people with doctorates work together ...
FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
Sep 01, 2008; ... Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously. Measuring teeth from dead horses in upstate New York seems an unlikely way to get at the truth behind some of the most controversial questions about the Old World. But David ...