Photo caption See Robert S. Levine's feature on the novel Douglass wrote, The Heroic Slave. Tony Rodriguez Spring 2018 Volume 39, Issue 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The Office of Digital Humanities Turns Ten Funding projects Meredith Hindley Tennessee’s Tim Henderson Books and literature are at the center of Humanities Tennessee's programming Esther Ferington The Public and Private Mikhail Gorbachev An interview with William Taubman Meredith Hindley Remembering Bruce Cole The former NEH chairman believed passionately in the power of the humanities David Skinner Why Americans Think British Words Are Silly and Adorable Although brolly is British, bumbershoot is surprisingly American Lynne Murphy Death-Defying Merry-Go-Rounds and Knee-Scraping Climbing Bars Are Playground Memories of Many Americans When a rocket you could climb or Cinderella's carriage inspired outdoor play Andy Rieger St. Louis’s First Black Detective Always Cracked the Case Ira Cooper never let his leads go cold Rosalind Early The Babe’s First Major League Trip to the Plate Ended in a Whiff Mississippian made marks with two firsts Steve Moyer Virginia Woolf Thought Royals Were Pretty Much Like the Rest of Us Yet, she appreciated the Victorian dream. Danny Heitman Environmental Prophet Rachel Carson Cultivated a Culture of Wonder Her writings show another side of the author of Silent Spring. Danny Heitman Rajneeshpuram Was More than a Utopia in the Desert. It Was a Mirror of the Time. The Rise and Fall of “Zorba the Buddha” in Oregon. Hugh Urban Editor's Note David Skinner
Tennessee’s Tim Henderson Books and literature are at the center of Humanities Tennessee's programming Esther Ferington
Remembering Bruce Cole The former NEH chairman believed passionately in the power of the humanities David Skinner
Why Americans Think British Words Are Silly and Adorable Although brolly is British, bumbershoot is surprisingly American Lynne Murphy
Death-Defying Merry-Go-Rounds and Knee-Scraping Climbing Bars Are Playground Memories of Many Americans When a rocket you could climb or Cinderella's carriage inspired outdoor play Andy Rieger
St. Louis’s First Black Detective Always Cracked the Case Ira Cooper never let his leads go cold Rosalind Early
The Babe’s First Major League Trip to the Plate Ended in a Whiff Mississippian made marks with two firsts Steve Moyer
Virginia Woolf Thought Royals Were Pretty Much Like the Rest of Us Yet, she appreciated the Victorian dream. Danny Heitman
Environmental Prophet Rachel Carson Cultivated a Culture of Wonder Her writings show another side of the author of Silent Spring. Danny Heitman
Rajneeshpuram Was More than a Utopia in the Desert. It Was a Mirror of the Time. The Rise and Fall of “Zorba the Buddha” in Oregon. Hugh Urban
