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Stained-Glass Heaven

The Bosco-Milligan Foundation / Architectural Heritage Center in Portland has preserved hundreds of stained-glass windows from the mid to late nineteenth century, including work from the celebrated Po

By Steve Moyer

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2

Dante: Auctor, Autore

The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2
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"Saving Fats"

Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou

By Steve Moyer

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2

Telecommunications Triumphs

Staying up all night working on his code and such for the glory of France, Napoleon still had time for other long-lasting achievements—namely, his optical telegraph.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2

That's Amore

Three women in novelist William Faulkner’s life affected his storytelling profoundly through their own literary and artistic abilities. Additionally, one of the three transformed his notions of race.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2

Akhmatova's Boswell

From the early 1980s until around 2000, there was a publishing explosion of Russian diaries and memoirs recalling Stalin’s Terror and World War II.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1

Bedtime Stories

Did you hear the one about the Japanese villagers who performed burial rights for an American World War II pilot by following the text of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake?

By Amy Lifson

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1

Ties That Bind

By June 1886, traveling by rail in the U.S.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1

Medical Assurance

In the NEH-supported American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work by Patricia D’Antonio, and published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010, we learn of t

By Steve Moyer

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Wheel of Cogitation

Wheel of Cogitation

Oregon Humanities’ Wheel of Cogitation travels about to street fairs with the aim of starting conversations that lead to an exchange of ideas.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1