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Articles with keyword "twentieth century"

Image of the Garst family welcomin Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 (Roswell Garst, cen

Statement

Khrushchev in Iowa

Coon Rapids, Iowa, was crawling with spies.

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In Focus

Maryland’s Phoebe Stein Davis

Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant.

François Faber

Curio

Velo News

Histories of bicycle racing often give in to hagiography, but historian Christopher S.

Feature

What Words Are Worth

In defense of the humanities.

Erik Jorgensen, executive director of the Maine Humanities Council

In Focus

Maine’s Erik Jorgensen

Erik Jorgensen, captain of the Maine Humanities Council.

Image of Wallace Stegner

Feature

Proud Flesh

A recollection of Wallace Stegner.

James Leve

IQ

Impertinent Questions with James Leve

On the composers of Cabaret and Chicago.

Image of definition of "aint" from Webster's Second.

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Ain’t That the Truth

Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.

Curio

Go West, Young Trickster

From Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West, wherein Duke research professor in Canadian studies Arnold E.

Brian Balough

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The American History Guys' Backstory

The humanities version of Car Talk.