September/October 2007

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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931. By Grant Wood.

Grant Wood / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund

Volume 28, Issue 5

HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH puts American masterpieces in schools across the country.

James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain.

The prolific, opinionated artist behind The Sources of Country Music.

Modernists of the American West

William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.

While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans.

An excerpt from the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book

How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.

Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York.

Virginia's Robert Vaughan connects his state to the world.

A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state.