July/August 2008

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Medallion depicting Eros and Psyche, first to second centuries C.E.

National Museum of Afghanistan © Thierry Olivier/Musée Guimet

July/August 2008

Volume 29, Issue 4

HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

A confluence of cultures formed the ancient treasures of Afghanistan, now seen for the first time in the United States.

Richard Rabinowitz and the Art of Exhibitry

Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg set the standards for art in the 1950s.

Ted Lord brings poetry and tech savvy to the humanities in Washington.

Mad hatter tears worshipper's chapeau in two during Sunday service.

On the carefully prescribed protocol of dueling

Meet Louisa Yeomans King, the “fairy godmother” of American gardening

On Homer and the mortals and gods who fill his tales

Entrepreneur and onetime gubernatorial candidate Lewis Lehrman talks to NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about Abraham Lincoln’s pivotal speech in 1854.

About soldiers-turned-defendants, a novelist-turned-interpreter, and French-turned-English

Shooting on weekends, a team of young, Jewish filmmaker-wannabes in 1920s Berlin made a classic film—and launched several major Hollywood careers.

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