Photo caption An uneasy alliance of browsers along the Seine, summer of 1940. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images July/August 2012 Volume 33, Issue 4 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Nietzsche Is Dead The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Harry Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche. Meredith Hindley The Body of Christ Sacred Street Theater in Medieval England James Williford Lessons from a Demigod Gilgamesh was a brutal tyrant who foolishly tried to defeat death. Philip Freeman Let Us Now Praise James Agee The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing. Danny Heitman Friends of Rousseau Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it. Leo Damrosch Street Sense Walking tours of Baltimore's Mount Vernon reveal a neighborhood's literary roots and architectural gems. Jen Kalaidis To See a Face Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist. Henry Wiencek Into the Deep U-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II. Amy Lifson Hawaiian Angle on Building One person's pagoda is another's bell tower. Steve Moyer Penn’s Woods Online Keeping tabs on the Commonwealth's uncommon history. Steve Moyer Best Bug Art Ever Machinist by day, entomological mosaicist by night. Anna Maria Gillis Impertinent Questions with Chad L. Williams African-American soldiers in WWI: A broadening experience for many. Meredith Hindley Indiana's Keira Amstutz Humanities programs connect across state. Julianna Thibodeaux Editor's Note, July/August 2012 David Skinner Thoreau on Flora Author of Walden proves to be invaluable to today's scientists studying climate change. Anna Maria Gillis
Nietzsche Is Dead The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Harry Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche. Meredith Hindley
Lessons from a Demigod Gilgamesh was a brutal tyrant who foolishly tried to defeat death. Philip Freeman
Let Us Now Praise James Agee The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing. Danny Heitman
Street Sense Walking tours of Baltimore's Mount Vernon reveal a neighborhood's literary roots and architectural gems. Jen Kalaidis
To See a Face Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist. Henry Wiencek
Into the Deep U-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II. Amy Lifson
Impertinent Questions with Chad L. Williams African-American soldiers in WWI: A broadening experience for many. Meredith Hindley
Thoreau on Flora Author of Walden proves to be invaluable to today's scientists studying climate change. Anna Maria Gillis
