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Sam Mihara

Winter 2025

Volume 46, Issue 1

Women on a bus

Fall 2024

Volume 45, Issue 4

Ursala Hudson

Summer 2024

Volume 45, Issue 3

Dante portrait

Spring 2024

Volume 45, Issue 2

Gold_Articles_First_Kings

Winter 2024

Volume 45, Issue 1

2023 Jefferson Lectuer Ruth J. Simmons

Fall 2023

Volume 44, Issue 4

Johnny Cash Pensive

Summer 2023

Volume 44, Issue 3

Front Cover -- Jacob Lawrence painting

Spring 2023

Volume 44, Issue 2

Malinche

Winter 2023

Volume 44, Issue 1

cover of Humanities magazine with portrait of Andrew Delbanco

Fall 2022

Volume 43, Issue 4

Kyiv mural

Summer 2022

Volume 43, Issue 3

Appalachian Road Diary Sketch

Spring 2022

Volume 43, Issue 2

Detail of colorful painting by Alma Thomas

Winter 2022

Volume 43, Issue 1

East Baltimore photo portrait of man and boy

Fall 2021

Volume 42, Issue 4

Beach umbrellas.

Summer 2021

Volume 42, Issue 3

Eye of the Alligator

Spring 2021

Volume 42, Issue 2

Cover Fannie Lou Hamer

Winter 2021

Volume 42, Issue 1

Virtual Classroom

Fall 2020

Volume 41, Issue 4

summer sceneF

Summer 2020

Volume 41, Issue 3

Spring 2020 cover

Spring 2020

Volume 41, Issue 2

Alaska carving

Winter 2020

Volume 41, Issue 1

2019 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities Father Columba Stewart standing in the Great Hall at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Fall 2019

Volume 40, Issue 4

This poster by Evelyn Rumsey Cary, circa 1905, helped rally support for a national women’s suffrage amendment.

Summer 2019

Volume 40, Issue 3

Sammy Davis Jr. on the cover of Humanities magazine

Spring 2019

Volume 40, Issue 2

Ursula Le Guin cover

Winter 2019

Volume 40, Issue 1

Fall 2018 cover of Humanities, Rita Charon

Fall 2018

Volume 39, Issue 4

Humanities Summer 2018 Edith Wharton

Summer 2018

Volume 39, Issue 3

Cover illustration of Frederick Douglass

Spring 2018

Volume 39, Issue 2

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Winter 2018

Volume 39, Issue 1

Americans and Vietnamese refugees in Hue in 1968

Fall 2017

Volume 38, Issue 4

Illustration of Henry David Thoreau

Summer 2017

Volume 38, Issue 3

Martha C. Nussbaum

Spring 2017

Volume 38, Issue 2

Illustration of Mary Moody Emerson

Winter 2017

Volume 38, Issue 1

Illustration of T. S. Eliot

Fall 2016

Volume 37, Issue 4

Photo of man in boat supervising swimming children

Summer 2016

Volume 37, Issue 3

2016 Jefferson Lecturer Ken Burns

Spring 2016

Volume 37, Issue 2

Ballerinas standing in window alcove of ballet school

January/February 2016

Volume 37, Issue 1

Illustration of Pilgrims during clearing of land

November/December 2015

Volume 36, Issue 6

Alabaster piece from King Tut exhibit that toured the U.S. in the 1970s

September/October 2015

Volume 36, Issue 5

Willa Cather

July/August 2015

Volume 36, Issue 4

Robert Riggs's "July 4 at Coney Island"

May/June 2015

Volume 36, Issue 3

Anna Deavere Smith

March/April 2015

Volume 36, Issue 2

Cézanne self-portrait

January/February 2015

Volume 36, Issue 1

Illustration of H. L. Mencken

November/December 2014

Volume 35, Issue 6

Portrait of James McNeill Whistler

September/October 2014

Volume 35, Issue 5

Photo of U.S. troops preparing to cross English Channel on D-Day

July/August 2014

Volume 35, Issue 4

Walter Isaacson, 2014 Jefferson Lecturer

May/June 2014

Volume 35, Issue 3

Illustration of Eudora Welty

March/April 2014

Volume 35, Issue 2

Count of Santiago de Calimaya

January/February 2014

Volume 35, Issue 1

Neo sign in Tucson

November/December 2013

Volume 34, Issue 6

Illustration based on poem by Amy Lowell

September/October 2013

Volume 34, Issue 5

Cover for July/August 2013 Humanities magazine

July/August 2013

Volume 34, Issue 4

Beach Landscape

May/June 2013

Volume 34, Issue 3

Photo portrait of Martin Scorsese

March/April 2013

Volume 34, Issue 2

Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici

January/February 2013

Volume 34, Issue 1

Oyster Bar, Grand Central Terminal, New York City

November/December 2012

Volume 33, Issue 6

Rain-god vessel

September/October 2012

Volume 33, Issue 5

Book buying along the Seine in 1940

July/August 2012

Volume 33, Issue 4

Wendell Berry photo portrait

May/June 2012

Volume 33, Issue 3

"Secret Kiss" illustration by Georges Barbier

March/April 2012

Volume 33, Issue 2

Philip Larkin

January/February 2012

Volume 33, Issue 1

molded plywood chair

November/December 2011

Volume 32, Issue 6

Dictionary of American Regional English

September/October 2011

Volume 32, Issue 5

Balinese bird mask

July/August 2011

Volume 32, Issue 4

Drew Gilpin Faust, 2011 Jefferson Lecturer

May/June 2011

Volume 32, Issue 3

Humanities Magazine March/April 2011 cover

March/April 2011

Volume 32, Issue 2

Unidentified Civil War soldier in a New York Zouave uniform.

January/February 2011

Volume 32, Issue 1

Black Swan Record label, 1921

November/December 2010

Volume 31, Issue 6

Humanities September/October 2010 Cover

September/October 2010

Volume 31, Issue 5

Freud vs. Kierkegaard

July/August 2010

Volume 31, Issue 4

Jonathan Spence, 2010 Jefferson Lecturer

May/June 2010

Volume 31, Issue 3

The Yankee Driver, Thomas Hart Benton

March/April 2010

Volume 31, Issue 2

Image of January/February 2010 Humanities cover

January/February 2010

Volume 31, Issue 1

Detail from the Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three

November/December 2009

Volume 30, Issue 6

Humanities Magazine September/October 2009 cover

September/October 2009

Volume 30, Issue 5

Humanities Magazine July/August 2009 cover

July/August 2009

Volume 30, Issue 4

Leon Kass, the 38th Annual Jefferson Lecturer

May/June 2009

Volume 30, Issue 3

San Baudelio de Berlanga, circa 1000

March/April 2009

Volume 30, Issue 2

Cover of January/February 2009 Humanities

January/February 2009

Volume 30, Issue 1

Church of Odigitria

November/December 2008

Volume 29, Issue 6

Humanities Magazine September/October 2008 cover

September/October 2008

Volume 29, Issue 5

Humanities Magazine July/August 2008 cover

July/August 2008

Volume 29, Issue 4

Caricature of John Updike

May/June 2008

Volume 29, Issue 3

Gary Cooper fashion portrait

March/April 2008

Volume 29, Issue 2

Portrait of Richa Franks

January/February 2008

Volume 29, Issue 1

Fashion showroom in Miami in the 1950s

November/December 2007

Volume 28, Issue 6

Painting of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931

September/October 2007

Volume 28, Issue 5

Humanities Magazine July/August 2007 cover

July/August 2007

Volume 28, Issue 4

2007 Jefferson Lecturer, Harvey Mansfield

May/June 2007

Volume 28, Issue 3

Humanities Magazine March/April 2007 cover

March/April 2007

Volume 28, Issue 2

Recreation of Susan Constant, largest of three boats that landed at Jamestown

January/February 2007

Volume 28, Issue 1

Humanities cover

March/April 2001

Volume 22, Issue 2