May/June 2015 | The National Endowment for the Humanities

Robert Riggs's "July 4 at Coney Island"

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Robert Riggs’s July 4 at Coney Island, 1938. Read how Coney Island has inspired the American imagination.

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May/June 2015

Volume 36, Issue 3

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For a Brief Time in the 1930s, Radio Station WLW in Ohio Became America’s One and Only “Super Station”

Katy June-Friesen

Madam Sacho: How One Iroquois Woman Survived the American Revolution

General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her story lives on.

Sarah M. S. Pearsall

Life-Sized Portraits of the Kings and Queens of Nigeria

A photo exhibit at the Newark Museum

Mary Jo Patterson

Picturing the Farms of Ohio and Pennsylvania

For a small price, Ferdinand Brader would draw a bird's-eye view of your homestead.

In Mid Twentieth Century, Folly Cove Artisans Reunited Designers and Craftsmen

Local aesthetic caught eye of national retailers.

Murty Classical Library of India Sheds Light on Sixteenth-Century Lyrical Poet Surdas

Poems in the style proliferated for centuries.

Pennsylvania’s Simon Cameron Staged Honorific Tribute of Black Troops After Civil War

Review in Harrisburg was a capital idea.

Now in English: The Memoir of a Robinson Crusoe à la française

Carla Zecher translates The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747.

Nina Kemppel Came Home to Lead Alaska Humanities Forum

The humanities have a big impact on Alaskan life.

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