HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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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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Volume 41, Issue 4

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