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Elise Lemire, author of Black Walden:Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Mass

Black Walden

The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.

By Craig Lambert

humanities, September/October, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 5
Martha Hill improvises on Bennington’s tennis courts, 1936.

Grassroots Modern

New York dancers take to the country.

By Janet Mansfield Soares

humanities, September/October, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 5
John Mitchell, Jr., editor, Richmond Planet

Brother from the Richmond Planet

Crusading Journalist John Mitchell Jr. took on the lynchers.

By Donna M. Lucey

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, Gardener

In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.

By Tom Christopher

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4

Our Founding Novelist

Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.

By Anne Trubek

humanities, January/February, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4
Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill

Murder on Foot

The walking tour goes digital.

By Craig Lambert

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4
Linking Verse across Adjoining Rooms, detail

Sister Poets

In China they were called cainü.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4
Playwright John Patrick Shanley

The Gorgeous Unstoppable Tennessee Williams

And how he changed our sense of beauty.

By John Patrick Shanley

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4
Sketch of Kierkegaard by Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840.

The Fork And The Shrink

Kierkegaard was a psychologist of sorts, but unlike Freud he believed in God.

By Gordon Marino

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4

The War 150 Years Later

As the sesquicentennial nears, a selection of past, present, and future humanities projects.

By David Skinner

humanities, July/August, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 4