Photo caption The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931. By Grant Wood. Grant Wood / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund September/October 2007 Volume 28, Issue 5 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue A New Visual Language Modernists of the American West Susan Saccoccia The Collector William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears. Humanities Staff A Summer Scene While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans. Wayne Franklin Wyeth’s Noble Savage An excerpt from the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book Humanities Staff “High Thinking and Low Living” How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists. Laura Wolff Scanlan The Passing City Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York. Susan Saccoccia Vaughan’s Virginia Virginia's Robert Vaughan connects his state to the world. Courteney Stuart Planned Paradise: Making the Florida Dream A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state. Dan Scheuerman Editor’s Note, September/October 2007 David Skinner
The Collector William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears. Humanities Staff
A Summer Scene While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans. Wayne Franklin
“High Thinking and Low Living” How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists. Laura Wolff Scanlan
The Passing City Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York. Susan Saccoccia
Planned Paradise: Making the Florida Dream A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state. Dan Scheuerman
