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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Cover Story

Black on Black: Louis Draper Made His Subjects Visible

Erina Duganne
photo of a young a boy around nine years old posing before a cracked cement wall
Photo caption

Photography, as Louis Draper practiced it, was an art.

—Louis Draper, Untitled, undated, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment Fund, 2015.300 © Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust, Nell D. Winston, trustee

Current Issue

Cover Fannie Lou Hamer
Photo caption

Portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer by Louis Draper for Essence magazine.

—Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971, Louis Draper, National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art © Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust, Nell D. Winston, trustee

Winter 2021
Volume 42, Issue 1

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Featured In This Issue

Fannie Lou Hamer
“The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer”

How a would-be voter became a civil rights legend

Rosalind Early
Kevin Young, editor of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Black Poetry Anthologized

An Interview with Kevin Young

Humanities Staff

Classics

How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines"

Martha S. Jones
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known.

The pirate next door.

Mark G. Hanna
Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs

What Unicode will make possible

Erica Machulak
Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn’t Happen.

The origins of the Library of America were a messy business.

David Skinner
Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Steven Nadler
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill” 

The rise and fall of Perry Miller

Abram Van Engen
The Messy Genius of W. H. Auden

A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order.

Danny Heitman
World War I Changed America and Transformed Its Role in International Relations

So why don't we pay more attention to it?

Meredith Hindley

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Edsitement! Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War Chronicling America: History American Newspapers Created Equal
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