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Editor's Note
Art Lessons
Art and the American Story
NEH puts American materpieces in schools across the country.
By Maggie Riechers
The Collector
William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.
The Ballad of Thomas Hart Benton
The prolific, opinionated artist behind The Sources of Country Music.
By Justin Wolff
In Defense of Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that,
Mark Twain.
By Wayne Franklin
A Summer Scene
While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the
violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans
By Wayne Franklin
Wyeth's Noble Savage
An excerpt from Picturing America describes how an artist interpreted Cooper's prose.
High Thinking and Low Living
How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.
By Laura Wolff Scanlan
The Passing City
Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York.
By Susan Saccoccia
Around the Nation
In Focus
Virginia's Robert Vaughan connects his state to the world.
By Courteney Stuart
Planned Paradise
A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state.
By Dan Sheuerman
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