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For this issue on education and the humanities, our cover illustration by John Cuneo shows a virtual classroom.

—John Cuneo

Fall 2020
Volume 41, Issue 4

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Andrew Delbanco, president of the Teagle Foundation and Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.
Humanities for Everyone: A Plan

In conversation with Andrew Delbanco of the Teagle Foundation

Jon Parrish Peede
USS Intrepid
Summer School Open

How a few NEH programs for educators carried on despite the pandemic.

David Skinner
Children showing smallpox vaccinations in 1949. 
Surviving Childhood

The early years have become remarkably safe

Leslie Paris
John Locke
Discovering Childhood

John Locke on Education

Peter Gibbon

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Jazz Record

When the photographer W. Eugene Smith lived next door to New York’s most vibrant late-night jazz scene.

Mark Rudio
Mukurtu: A Digital Platform That Does More Than Manage Content
Erica Machulak
Sounds of the South
Stephen Koch
Letters from Strangers
Laura Wolff Scanlan
Ambiguity Colored Picasso’s Take on the Circus 
Matthew Phillips
Recent NEH Grants
Amy Lifson
Georgia’s Sustaining Force in the Humanities: Laura McCarty
Maya Kroth
Executive Function Special: An Interview with Phoebe Stein

Meet the president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils

Laura Wolff Scanlan
A Pilgrim’s  Progress

More than fifty years after his death, author C. S. Lewis still has a diverse array of devoted readers

Danny Heitman
Showcasing American Culture on the World Stage

NEH contributes to Expo 2020 Dubai

Humanities Staff
Miss Blackwell Goes to Medical School

An excerpt from The Doctors Blackwell

Janice P. Nimura
2020 National Humanities Medal
Humanities Staff

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