Photo caption Willa Cather's visit to the desert. Gary Kelley July/August 2015 Volume 36, Issue 4 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Treasure Island Author Robert Louis Stevenson Was a Sickly Man with a Robust Imagination His own life was one of contradictions, and he revealed both the good and evil in all his characters. Danny Heitman Fighting for the Right to Party on Sundays How the struggle over blue laws changed American politics Kyle G. Volk Berea College in Appalachia Charges Students Nothing but Expects Great Things in Return How Berea, founded by Abolitionists, continues its mission to educate poor kids in Appalachia William H. Funk Dancing for One Hundred Years at the Peabody Institute The Peabody celebrates a tradition of innovation. Amy Lifson Vel Phillips Knocked Down Racial and Gender Barriers in Wisconsin A diminutive African-American woman became a powerhouse for the civil rights struggle in Wisconsin. Rosalind Early Myth Versus Truth in the Life of Calamity Jane: Ask Glenda Bell Calamity Jane spit, gambled, and dressed like a man and became a Western legend. Forrest Hartman Decoy Collection at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum Gets New Roost Archaeological evidence shows modern hunters were not the first to use decoys. Steve Moyer A Pair of Technologies Sheds New Light on Jubilees Palimpsest An ancient text reveals a wider context for Biblical studies. Steve Moyer Scrapbooking Was Big During and After the Civil War. Why? Impertinent Questions with Ellen Gruber Garvey Steve Moyer Editor’s Note David Skinner
Treasure Island Author Robert Louis Stevenson Was a Sickly Man with a Robust Imagination His own life was one of contradictions, and he revealed both the good and evil in all his characters. Danny Heitman
Fighting for the Right to Party on Sundays How the struggle over blue laws changed American politics Kyle G. Volk
Berea College in Appalachia Charges Students Nothing but Expects Great Things in Return How Berea, founded by Abolitionists, continues its mission to educate poor kids in Appalachia William H. Funk
Dancing for One Hundred Years at the Peabody Institute The Peabody celebrates a tradition of innovation. Amy Lifson
Vel Phillips Knocked Down Racial and Gender Barriers in Wisconsin A diminutive African-American woman became a powerhouse for the civil rights struggle in Wisconsin. Rosalind Early
Myth Versus Truth in the Life of Calamity Jane: Ask Glenda Bell Calamity Jane spit, gambled, and dressed like a man and became a Western legend. Forrest Hartman
Decoy Collection at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum Gets New Roost Archaeological evidence shows modern hunters were not the first to use decoys. Steve Moyer
A Pair of Technologies Sheds New Light on Jubilees Palimpsest An ancient text reveals a wider context for Biblical studies. Steve Moyer
Scrapbooking Was Big During and After the Civil War. Why? Impertinent Questions with Ellen Gruber Garvey Steve Moyer
