January/February 1999
In This Issue January/February 1999
Volume 20, Issue 1
Fragment of a head of a queen, jasper, Hermopolis, Dynasty 18 (Akhenaten), 1353-1336 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
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Features
"When Memories Collide"
Technology takes us on a virtual tour of an immigrant home of the 1920s.
By Lisa RogersThe Irishness of Irish Painting
A sense of nationhood spawned new painting styles.
By James Christen StewardReconsidering Rivera
The Mexican muralist sought to create art "capable of persuading and educating the masses."
By Robin HerbstAn old book sheds new light
A biography of Daniel Boone is published 140 years after it was written.
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Departments
Conversation
A Nation of Individuals
Scholar John A. Garraty talks about the creation of the new American National Biography.
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