Photo caption Balinese bird mask, circa 1900-1940. July/August 2011 Volume 32, Issue 4 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The Well-Wrought Textbook The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry. Garrick Davis How Did Robert E. Lee Become an American Icon? The man was remembered, but not his cause. James C. Cobb A Texas-Sized Renovation Buried treasure in Austin Brett Campbell Badger Boys in Blue Wisconsin remembers its Badger Boys who fought for the Union. Laura Wolff Scanlan Fire on the Walls Texas looks at the land through the eyes of artist Alexandre Hogue. Patricia Mora A Prison Debate Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best. Beth Schwartzapfel Capital Gains Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C., Steve Moyer Paging Modernism . . . Steve Moyer Of Circles, Terraces, and Spheres A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something? Steve Moyer Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life. Meredith Hindley Arkansas's Paul Austin Putting humanities tools into local hands. Bernard Reed Editor's Note David Skinner
The Well-Wrought Textbook The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry. Garrick Davis
How Did Robert E. Lee Become an American Icon? The man was remembered, but not his cause. James C. Cobb
Badger Boys in Blue Wisconsin remembers its Badger Boys who fought for the Union. Laura Wolff Scanlan
A Prison Debate Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best. Beth Schwartzapfel
Capital Gains Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C., Steve Moyer
Of Circles, Terraces, and Spheres A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something? Steve Moyer
Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life. Meredith Hindley
