Editor's Notes

To mark the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the National Endowment for the Humanities is highlighting the arc of American history that scholars have called “the long civil rights movement.”

Recently, a young African-American reader told me she did not see herself in the covers of HUMANITIES.

From questions of legacy to a writer's talents for cinema review and scene-making.

In this issue we take in the legacies of two celebrated Americans, whose love of country was profoundly qualified. Robert E.