Articles with keyword "United States"
In Focus
Maryland’s Phoebe Stein Davis
Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant.
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What IF?
The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations.
Conversation
Reading Into the Great Depression
Critic Morris Dickstein talks about the culture of the thirties and the demise of theory.
Curio
Curiously Reckless Rebels
An exquisitely fine pencil drawing hanging in a bedroom at Tudor Place in Georgetown in the nation’s capital has a tragic tale to tell that is lacking in some basic details.
Feature
Ain’t That the Truth
Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.
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Living Off the Landscape
How Thomas Cole and Frederic Church made themselves at home in the Hudson River Valley.
Curio
Simple Things
Oregon Humanities magazine’s summer ’09 issue provokes much thought on the matter of things, possessions, or, as the editors call it, “stuff.” The issue is stuffed with stuff on stuff, includ