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cover of Humanities magazine with portrait of Andrew Delbanco
Photo caption

Andrew Delbanco is delivering the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. 

—Billy Delfs for the National Endowment for the Humanities

cover of Humanities magazine with portrait of Andrew Delbanco
Photo caption

Andrew Delbanco is delivering the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. 

—Billy Delfs for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Fall 2022
Volume 43, Issue 4

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

black and white photo of two professors in robes during a graduation ceremony
Andrew Delbanco: Appreciations from Former Students

Five former students praise the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

James Bundy, Janine de Novais, Rachel Friedman, Roosevelt Montás, Deval Patrick
3/4 portrait of Andrew Delbanco
Open Questions With Andrew Delbanco

An interview with the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer

Shelly C. Lowe

Also in this issue

Editor’s Note
David Skinner
When an Ark Was Built in Newark

Artist Kea Tawana was one of a kind

Greg Allen
Artists Reinterpret the Great Migration

Mississippi / Maryland

Sherry Lucas
The Picasso Exhibition That Forever Changed Art in America
Hugh Eakin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Did More Than Write One Classic Short Story

Beyond “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Alyson Foster
Building a Literary Trail in Brattleboro, Vermont

A small town seen through the history of its writers

Sarah Stewart Taylor
Long Before SpaceX, Pan Am Was Booking Flights to the Moon 
Hannah Stamler
Aiko Yamashiro of the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities
Wanda A. Adams
Invisible Man at Seventy

Ralph Ellison’s seminal novel continues to challenge us.

Eugene Holley Jr.
Finding a Pharaoh

Excavating an Egyptian masterpiece in the pyramids

Peter Der Manuelian
The Rise of Rapture Horror Culture

How the Book of Revelation continues to fascinate us.

Timothy Beal
Before the Brontës, There Were the Porters

Sister novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter get their due

Devoney Looser
Nobody’s Woman

Who was La Malinche?

Angelica Aboulhosn

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