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Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant
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In this issue, read about the motivation behind Ulysses S. Grant's penning of his memoir.

Sara Tyson

Winter 2018
Volume 39, Issue 1

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, done in sepia
What Drove Ulysses Grant to Write about the Civil War

On the motives of a reluctant memoirist

Meredith Hindley
Texting in Ancient Mayan header image
Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs

What Unicode will make possible

Erica Machulak
Students protest at Southern University in the 1970s
A New Documentary Casts a Light on the 1972 Tragedy at Southern University

Two students were shot dead for protesting

Danny Heitman

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Peter Gibbon
Over a Career Spanning Six Decades, American Poet W. S. Merwin Transformed Anger into Art
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New Museums Confront Mississippi History, Coming to Terms with Tragedies, Celebrating Triumphs
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“New Orleans Has Been a Wicked City for a Long Time”

An excerpt from New Orleans & The World: 1718–2018 Anthology

Alecia P. Long
Students in Tuscaloosa Learn All About the Blues, and How to Sing Them, Too
Haley Herfurth
A Bhutanese Folktale Becomes a Children’s Book in New Hampshire

A pumpkin marries a princess and then . . .

Laura Wolff Scanlan
Before James Bond, a Hidden Camera Inside a Watch Was a Gadget for Royalty
Steve Moyer
The Many Alexander Hamiltons

An interview with Joanne B. Freeman

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Executive Function with Julie Fry

Listening to the voices of California’s people

Natalie Jabbar
Editor’s Note
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