January/February 2000
In This Issue January/February 2000
Uproar in the Classroom
A new film explores how the written word carries explosive consequences.
Volume 21, Issue 1
Worth Brehm's 1923 illustration of the young rascal, Huckleberry Finn.
The Mark Twain project at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Features
Almost a Masterpiece
The early version of what became The Great Gatsby will soon be in print.
By James L. W. West IIIA Visit from Historian Shelby Foote
The writer shares reflections on the South and history.
By Richard CarterA World of Spectacle
An exhibition examines eighteenth-century art in the city that was the intersection of the classical and the contemporary.
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Departments
Statements
National Council on the Humanities: Seven New Members Named
Linda Lee Aaker, Edward L Ayers, Ira Berlin, Pedro G. Castillo, Evelyn Edson, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, and Theodore Striggles.
By Lynn ErskineConversation
Trying to Tame Huck Finn
NEH Chairman William R. Ferris talks with Boston teacher Nancy Methelis about confronting controversy in a classic novel.
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