November/December 1998
In This Issue November/December 1998
How the Marshall Plan Came About
The general's papers reveal the campaign for the plan that rebuilt Europe.
Volume 19, Issue 6
This poster by Dutch artist Reyn Dirksen won a 1950 competition celebrating the Marshall Plan.
German Marshall Fund
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Features
Winners of the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities
This year's recipients of the National Medal for the Humanities: Stephen Ambrose, E. L. Doctorow, Diana Eck, Nancye Brown Gaj, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Vartan Gregorian, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Garry Wills
By Ronica RothOpening Locked Doors
Reflections on the moral frontiers of thirty years of teaching the Holocaust.
By Lawrence L. LangerReconstructing Jacob Lawrence
Our history from the New Deal to contemporary Times Square is documented in a new catalog of the artist.
By Tom StabileI'll Make Me a World
From ragtime to Spike Lee, a film captures the kaleidoscope of cultural contributions made by African Americans in this century.
By Rachel GalvinHeraldry and Harleys
A new exhibition compares the American biker and the knights of the Middle Ages.
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Departments
Conversation
New Perspectives on the Cold War
Historian Melvyn Leffler talks about perceptions and misperceptions of the Cold War.
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