Photo caption Drew Gilpin Faust, 2011 Jefferson Lecturer © Mark Morelli May/June 2011 Volume 32, Issue 3 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue An Appreciation: A Historian's Historian A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust. David W. Blight California's Cold War Museum All things communist—from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes—find a home at the Wende. David C. Engerman Oyster Wars Wayward Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay Anna Maria Gillis The Swamp Doctor Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron. Amy Lifson Milton and the Cultures of Print New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library. Thomas Fulton Handcraft History Decorative arts in Ohio and beyond. Bill Eichenberger City Desk Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Venice. Steve Moyer Them Is Fightin’ Words Disputes in Mogollon Rim in late nineteenth century inspired stories by Zane Grey. Steve Moyer History of Science at the Adler Planetarium The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here. Steve Moyer Intellectual Retreat Educational experiment attracted artists, musicians, free spirits Steve Moyer Impertinent Questions with Lewis Hyde On the "commons" of intellectual property. David Skinner Editor's Note David Skinner
An Appreciation: A Historian's Historian A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust. David W. Blight
California's Cold War Museum All things communist—from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes—find a home at the Wende. David C. Engerman
Milton and the Cultures of Print New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library. Thomas Fulton
City Desk Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Venice. Steve Moyer
Them Is Fightin’ Words Disputes in Mogollon Rim in late nineteenth century inspired stories by Zane Grey. Steve Moyer
History of Science at the Adler Planetarium The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here. Steve Moyer
