HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Open Questions With Andrew Delbanco

An interview with the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer

HUMANITIES, Fall 2022, Volume 43, Number 4

3/4 portrait of Andrew Delbanco

Professor Andrew Delbanco is author of numerous books on the American tradition from the Puritans to higher education in the twenty-first century.

—Billy Delfs for the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Andrew Delbanco is delivering the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

—Billy Delfs for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Volume 43, Issue 4

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