Photo caption D-Day troops prepare to cross the English Channel while at home legislators push the G.I. Bill of Rights through Congress. National Archives Photo caption D-Day troops prepare to cross the English Channel while at home legislators push the G.I. Bill of Rights through Congress. National Archives July/August 2014 Volume 35, Issue 4 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Washington Irving Was the Original City Slicker. Here's What Happened When He Went West. Washington Irving leaves Gotham to explore the frontier Danny Heitman Reading Laura Ingalls Wilder Is Not the Same When You’re a Parent. Amy Lifson In 1964, the Appleknockers from Cobden, Illinois, Made It All the Way to the State Championships. But first they lost two starting players. Rosalind Early Armory Arts Village in Michigan Used to Be a State Prison. Now It’s an Artists’ Community. Michigan prison gets artistic makeover Victoria Cooney A Lot of People in Riverside, California, Came There Because of the Air Force Base. A New Exhibit Tells Their Stories. Catherine Wagley Ernest Hemingway’s Hamburger Recipe Was Nothing Like His Famously Spare Prose. Papa's key ingredients Steve Moyer What Can We Learn About Victor Hugo From Visiting His House Museum? A privileged view into the literary mind Steve Moyer "Toad-stranglers," "Whoopensockers" and Other Findings from the Dictionary of American Regional English Niche words still produce some linguistic tang Steve Moyer Mickey Mantle Biographer Jane Leavy Really Doesn’t like the Designated-hitter Rule. But she loves baseball and complicated heroes Meredith Hindley The Minnesota Humanities Center's David O'Fallon Believes in the Transforming Power of the Arts and Humanities. Immigrant, tribal, and veteran voices are heard in telling of stories Graydon Royce
Washington Irving Was the Original City Slicker. Here's What Happened When He Went West. Washington Irving leaves Gotham to explore the frontier Danny Heitman
In 1964, the Appleknockers from Cobden, Illinois, Made It All the Way to the State Championships. But first they lost two starting players. Rosalind Early
Armory Arts Village in Michigan Used to Be a State Prison. Now It’s an Artists’ Community. Michigan prison gets artistic makeover Victoria Cooney
A Lot of People in Riverside, California, Came There Because of the Air Force Base. A New Exhibit Tells Their Stories. Catherine Wagley
Ernest Hemingway’s Hamburger Recipe Was Nothing Like His Famously Spare Prose. Papa's key ingredients Steve Moyer
What Can We Learn About Victor Hugo From Visiting His House Museum? A privileged view into the literary mind Steve Moyer
"Toad-stranglers," "Whoopensockers" and Other Findings from the Dictionary of American Regional English Niche words still produce some linguistic tang Steve Moyer
Mickey Mantle Biographer Jane Leavy Really Doesn’t like the Designated-hitter Rule. But she loves baseball and complicated heroes Meredith Hindley
The Minnesota Humanities Center's David O'Fallon Believes in the Transforming Power of the Arts and Humanities. Immigrant, tribal, and veteran voices are heard in telling of stories Graydon Royce
