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Portrait of James McNeill Whistler
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves, a studio assistant to Whistler in London, where Whistler defended his experimental work in court. See "How did James McNeill Whistler create his distinctive brand?"

© Christies Images 2014

September/October 2014
Volume 35, Issue 5

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

James Abbott McNeill Whistler in a grey suit and yellow tie, hand on his hip
How James McNeill Whistler Became a Brand and Fought for It in Court

An artist sues his biggest critic.

Mary Zajac
black and white photo of Sontag, lying down with her hands underneath her head
Susan Sontag, Essayist and So Much Else

A new film on Susan Sontag gives an intimate look at her passions.

Emily St. John Mandel
Teddy Roosevelt from the chest up, drawn using charcoal, wearing eyeglasses
The Roosevelt Bond

Politics and war brought Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever closer.

Meredith Hindley

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Nineteenth-Century Whaler Takes Twenty-First Century Voyage

The Charles W. Morgan sails New England

Charlotte Bruce Harvey
Bird Artist John Gould and the Man Who Lost a Fortune Collecting Him

The story of an entrepreneurial artist and an avid book collector

Steve Moyer
Getting to the Roots of Jewish Comedy

Tracing Jewish-American comedy through the Borsht Belt and beyond

Julie Yue
The Highwaymen, a School of African-American Artists Who Hawked Their Work on the Side of the Road

The art of Florida's Highwaymen finds a new audience

Lynn Wadell
After Much Debate, Not a Little Anguish, and Defining of Terms, Park Service Confirmed Site of Hostilities between Indians and Soldiers

Exact location of Sand Creek conflict had gone missing

Steve Moyer
John Donne Delivered a Sermon on Gunpowder Day in 1622. What Did It Sound Like?

Getting Donne down, virtually

Steve Moyer
Sue Shillinglaw on Grapes of Wrath, Published Seventy-Five Years Ago
Meredith Hindley
Editor's Note
David Skinner

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