HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Cover Story

Humanities for Everyone: A Plan

In conversation with Andrew Delbanco of the Teagle Foundation

Jon Parrish Peede

HUMANITIES, Fall 2020, Volume 41, Number 4

Andrew Delbanco, president of the Teagle Foundation and Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.

Andrew Delbanco, president of the Teagle Foundation and Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. Photo by Zachary Peckler

—Courtesy of Andrew Delbanco

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Virtual Classroom

For this issue on education and the humanities, our cover illustration by John Cuneo shows a virtual classroom.

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Volume 41, Issue 4

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