| About this issue |
1998 Medal Winners
This year's recipients of the National Medal for the Humanities: Stephen Ambrose, E. L. Doctorow, Diana Eck, Nancye Brown Gaj, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Vartan Gregorian, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Garry Wills |
War and Reconciliation |
A Conversation with . . .
Historian Melvyn Leffler talks about perceptions and misperceptions of the Cold War. |
How the Marshall Plan Came About
The general's papers reveal the campaign for the plan that rebuilt Europe. (By Meredith Hindley) |
Opening Locked Doors
Reflections on the moral frontiers of thirty years of teaching the Holocaust. (By Lawrence L. Langer) |
Creativity in America |
Reconstructing Jacob Lawrence
Our history from the New Deal to contemporary Times Square is documented in a new catalog of the artist. (By Tom Stabile) |
I'll Make Me World
From ragtime to Spike Lee, a film captures the kaleidoscope of cultural contributions made by African Americans in this century. (By Rachel Galvin) |
Around the Nation |
State by State
Exhibitions, lectures, films, and conferences throughout the country. |
Heraldry and Harleys
A new exhibition compares the American biker and the knights of the Middle Ages. (By Erin Erickson) |
