HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Not Your Typical Colonial Dames

Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America

Sarah M. S. Pearsall

HUMANITIES, Spring 2019, Volume 40, Number 2

Illustration of Algonquin attack on Iroquois village

—Illustration by Daniel Zakroczemski

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What Sets Italian Americans Off From Other Immigrants?

Family and work for starters, according to a new TV documentary.

Vincent J. Cannato

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.

When Bram Met Walt

Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.

Meredith Hindley

How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal?

It’s more than a word. It’s an attitude and a lifestyle.

Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated

The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?