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Humanities Magazine: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Cover of September/October 2004 Humanities September/October 2004

Editor's Note

Education Matters

"A Good Teacher and a Willing Student"
Education Secretary Rod Paige talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about improving America's schools.

The American Musical

Broadway!
A new film tracks one hundred years of stars and shows along the Great White Way. By Scott Ethier

Urban Sensibilities
Joseph Urban brought European design and craftmanship to Ziegfeld's extravaganzas. By Cynthia Barnes

The Dance Master
Videos, photographs, and manuscripts document the legacy of choreographer Jerome Robbins. By Maya Dalinsky

A Penny for a Song
Musical broadsides give a glimpse of nineteenth-century popular culture. By Phoebe Prioleau

Art of the Americas

The Medici of the New World
How an art-loving physician named Albert C. Barnes took revenge on the critics by building a collection barred to them. By Caroline Kim

The Lost City of Cahokia
An exhibition explores an ancient civilization in the American Midwest. By Emmett Berg

Around the Nation

Bronzeville Blues
Recalling how music thrived on Chicago's South Side. By Eric Segal

Virtual Trowel
Digging up Arizona's past through a new website. By Lisa Rudden

In Focus
Bob Buss promotes history in Hawai'i. By Phoebe Prioleau