July/August 2009

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Webster's Third Dictionary became infamous after mistaken reports that it treated "ain't" as proper English.

Dona Bagley

July/August 2009

Volume 30, Issue 4

A recollection of Wallace Stegner

The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations

Revisiting Frederick Douglass's landmark anti-slavery speech of July 5, 1852

Coon Rapids, Iowa, was crawling with spies.

A meeting with Ansel Adams sealed a photographer's future

Looking for antiquity in Iowa

Prince Maximilian of Wied visits Pennsylvania

A Conversation with Morris Dickstein

On the cosmopolitan Benjamin Franklin.

Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant.

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