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Detail of the Tsimshian clan house front at the NEH-supported Sealaska Heritage Institute, made by David A. Boxley. The house front tells the Tsimshian story of Am’ala, responsible for carrying the weight of the world.

—Photograph by Vincent Ricardel

Winter 2020

Volume 41, Issue 1

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Classics

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.

Mark G. Hanna

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.

David Skinner

Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated

Steven Nadler

The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

Barbara Will

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)