Humanities back issues from May 2005:
ON DEMOCRACY: In His Own Words
May 01, 2005; ... Ancient and modern critics of democracy have shared a basic attitude. Both have distrusted the ordinary person and overridden his autonomy in search of a higher goal: autopian idea of justice. For Plato, that meant government by a small group of philosophers who would rule in the light ...
EDITOR'S NOTE
May 01, 2005; ... The Jefferson Lecturer "In my soul I'm an ancient Greek," Donald Kagan has said. "The Greeks are more immediately relevant than anything in between." Kagan has been teaching the virtues of the Greeks for the past thirty-five years at Yale University, where he is the Sterling ...
FELLOWSHIPS ANNOUNCED
May 01, 2005; ... The Endowment has awarded $7.4 million in fellowships to humanities scholars. The fellowships awarded include Sheila Dillon of Duke University for "The Female Portrait in Greek Art and Society," James Porter of ...
PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS ONLINE
May 01, 2005; ... The presidential papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower have gone online. A verbatim electronic version of eight volumes from the twenty-one volume Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, edited by Louis Galambos and Daun van Ee, is now easily retrievable with key words. "The added ...
ALICE AUSTEN COLLECTION PRESERVATION SURVEY
May 01, 2005; ... The Staten Island Historical Society has received a $5,000 grant from NEH for a preservation survey of its collection of photographs by Alice Austen. Austen, who received her first camera at age ten, not only captured events in the lives of her friends and family, but also traveled ...
From the Ground Up: Khrushchev Wins the Peasants
May 01, 2005; ... Stalin's Viceroy: 1931-1941 When Stalin first assigned Khrushchev to Ukraine he noted his protege's "weakness for cities and industry" and warned him "not to spend all of your time in the Donbas" at the expense of "your agricultural responsibilities." Khrushchev wrote: "I heeded his ...
Pentimento: Veterans' Memories of Vietnam
May 01, 2005; ... On a whim, Martin Tucker decided to try tracking down Vietnam veterans to use some of their photographs in teaching his darkroom class. "That's my generation, and I thought I could teach my students darkroom techniques while they absorbed a little history," he says. He envisioned ending ...
Oklahoma's Anita May
May 01, 2005; ... When Anita May became director of the Oklahoma Humanities Council in 1976, her goal was to bring Oklahomans as many humanities programs as there were Friday night football games. "People didn't even know what the humanities were," says May. "One of our first ideas was a summer humanist program ...
A Roundup of Activities
May 01, 2005; ... ALABAMA The eighth annual Alabama Writers Symposium will be held in Monroeville, May 5 through 7. This year's symposium, titled "Alabama Wild," will highlight native scholars and writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature, and Shirley Ann Grau, The Keeper ...
ON PRESENT DANGERS: In His Own Words
May 01, 2005; ... America is in danger. Unless its leaders change their national security policy, the peace and safety its power and influence have ensured since the end of the Cold War will disappear. Already, increasing military weakness and confusion about foreign and defense policy have encouraged the ...
ON THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: In His Own Words
May 01, 2005; ... From the perspective of the fifth-century Greeks the Peloponnesian War was legitimately perceived as a world war, causing enormous destruction of life and property, intensifying factional and class hostility, and dividing the Greek states internally and destabilizing their relationship to one ...
ON BASEBALL IN THE FIFTIES: In His Own Words
May 01, 2005; ... It was a time of heroic greatness and consistent excellence, when dynasties were challenged by other dynasties. The war between the Yankees and Dodgers extended from 1947 through 1956, a decade-the very length of the war between the Greeks and Trojans. It is true that most of the action took ...
Prizes
May 01, 2005; ... This spring brings a bumper crop of prizes, among them two Peabodys, two Bancrofts, and two in interactive media. "Studio 360 American Icons: Melville's Moby-Oick" has won a George Foster Peabody Award from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism. The radio program looks ...
THE SCHOLAR AND TEACHER
May 01, 2005; ... I FIRST MET DONALD KAGAN IN THE FALL OF 1974 WHEN I ARRIVED AT YALE to begin the doctoral program in ancient history. Perhaps "met" is not quite the right word: although not yet the nationally known figure he is today, Kagan was already a phenomenon. "Encounter" may be a better way to describe ...
On Learning from the Greeks
May 01, 2005; ... NEH Chairman Bruce Cole spoke recently with this year's Jefferson Lecturer, Donald Kagan, about the teaching of history. Kagan has taught at Yale for thirty-six years and is the author of eleven books, among them his four-volume magisterial work, THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. A Conversation ...
NEW GRANTS FOR PRESERVATION
May 01, 2005; ... NEH has awarded grants totaling $5.4 million to one hundred twenty-seven institutions for projects that involve the preservation of books, newspapers, film, audio recordings, and papers significant to American cultural history. Among the funded institutions are Indiana University at Bloomington, ...
INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS AWARDED
May 01, 2005; ... Six historically black, Hispanic-serving, and tribal colleges or universities have received NEH institutional grants in amounts up to $25,000. Recipient institutions are Dine College, Tsaile, Arizona, for a project involving Navajo linguistics; New Mexico State University at Las Graces for a ...
UNLOCKING THE POWER OF MYTH
May 01, 2005; ... THE ANCIENT CITY OF TROY HAS ENDURED THROUGH the human imagination. Abandoned in the fifth century CE. and not rediscovered until the 1870s, the city for centuries seemed no more real than Camelot or Valhalla. No one knows exactly why the Trojan War was waged, when it took place, or ...
Clash of Empires
May 01, 2005; ... How the FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR REDREW THE MAP of NORTH AMERICA IN THE SPRING OF 1754, A TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD OFFICER NAMED GEORGE WASHINGTON led a small group of soldiers over the Allegheny Mountains. The Virginia militia's mission was peaceful: to construct a fort near the head of the ...
ON THE ORIGINS OF WAR: In His Own Words
May 01, 2005; ... Our study of the episodes examined here suggests some general observations about the origins of wars and the preservation of peace. The first is that in a world of sovereign states a contest among them over the distribution of power is the normal condition and that such contests often lead to ...
ON THUCYDIDES: In His Own Words
May 01, 2005; ... Thucydides stood on the edge of philosophy. He was sufficiently a historian to feel compelled to establish the particulars, to present the data as accurately as he could, but he was no less, and perhaps more, concerned to convey the general truths that he had discovered. His passion for truth, ...