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

La Malinche, Hernán Cortés’s Translator and So Much More

The disputed legacy of an Indigenous icon

Angelica Aboulhosn
HUMANITIES, Winter 2023, Volume 44, Number 1
Portrait of La Malinche, her hair in a dense pile of braids
Photo caption

Malinche looks every bit the survivor in Alfredo Ramos Martínez’s glowing portrait.

—Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Phoenix Art Museum: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art, 1979.86. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project. Reproduced with permission.

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Malinche
Photo caption

Malinche looked every bit the survivor in the exhibition “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche.”   

 

—Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Phoenix Art Museum: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art, 1979.86. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project. Reproduced with permission. 

Winter 2023
Volume 44, Issue 1

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

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines"

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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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