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Poster of Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin crossing the Ohio River.

The First Great American Novel

It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.

By Randall Fuller

humanities, March/April, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 2
Portrait of Carl Sandburg

A Workingman's Poet

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

By Danny Heitman

humanities, March/April, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 2
Black Muslim rally, Harlem, 1963

Civil Rights and the Changing World

How history was made and how it's being written

By Earl Lewis

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1.5
NAACP parade with marchers carrying a coffin for Jim Crow.

From Freedom to Equality with NEH

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

By David Skinner

humanities, Special Edition, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1.5
Rosa Parks, arrested, Montgomery, December 1, 1955

From Freedom to Equality Around the Nation

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

By David Skinner

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1.5
Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention in August 1964.

Living History in Mississippi

Oral history, an essential ingredient in capturing state's role in civil rights movement.

By Esther Ferington

humanities, Special Edition, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1.5
Actors from Slavery by Another Name

Re-enslaved

How African-American bondage came back after emancipation.

By Lynette Holloway

humanities, Special Edition, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1.5
Detail from "Journey of the Magi"

Faces of the Renaissance

A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?

By Mary Kay Zuravleff

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1
letter press type

Do-It-Yourself Language

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

By Michael Adams

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1
The Eye of a Lady by Anonymous, ca. 1800

The Mysterious Miss Austen

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

By Meredith Hindley

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1