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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Cover Story

Road Trip Through Appalachia

What I ate and learned along Route 11

Carolyn Stewart
HUMANITIES, Spring 2022, Volume 43, Number 2
Slice of sweet potato pie
Photo caption

Daisy Mae’s sweet potato pie at Benne on Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina, where chef Ophus Hethington draws on family recipes and the cuisine of the African diaspora.

—Carolyn Stewart 

Current Issue

Appalachian Road Diary Sketch
Photo caption

Carolyn Stewart takes us on a tour of Appalachian foodways and finds out what they tell us about ourselves.

—Illustration by Stan Fellows

Spring 2022
Volume 43, Issue 2

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Featured In This Issue

Men dueling with swords
Dueling: the Violence of Gentlemen

What honor required of men.

Joseph Farrell
Abstract painting of a man with his hands covering his face
Politics and the Psyche    

During World War II, François Tosquelles treated patients by addressing the sickness of society

Camille Robcis
First Americans Museum
A New Museum For First Americans 

Oklahoma

Andy Rieger

Classics

How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines"

Martha S. Jones
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
Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs

What Unicode will make possible

Erica Machulak
Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn’t Happen.

The origins of the Library of America were a messy business.

David Skinner
Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Steven Nadler
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill” 

The rise and fall of Perry Miller

Abram Van Engen
The Messy Genius of W. H. Auden

A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order.

Danny Heitman
World War I Changed America and Transformed Its Role in International Relations

So why don't we pay more attention to it?

Meredith Hindley

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Edsitement! Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War Chronicling America: History American Newspapers Created Equal
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