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2023 Jefferson Lectuer Ruth J. Simmons
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Ruth J. Simmons is delivering the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

—Rocky Knete

Fall 2023

Volume 44, Issue 4

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

A graduation hug from an appreciative student

The Value of Difference

A conversation with Ruth J. Simmons, the 2023 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Shelly C. Lowe
Painting of valley and ominous clouds by Albert Bierstadt

In the Nineteenth Century, Scientists Set Out to Solve the “Problem of American Storms”

Alyson Foster
See America--Montana

How WPA State Guides Fused the Essential and the Eccentric

Touring the American Soul

Scott Borchert
Lois Weber

Lois Weber: An Early Hollywood Filmmaker with Her Own Studio

Her films examined the lives of women

Angelica Aboulhosn

Also in this issue

Photographer Roman Vishniac Explored the Shtetl and the Scientific

Mark Athitakis

A Bright New Spin on Ancient “Mummy Bundles”

Hannah Stamler

Lindsey Baker of Maryland Humanities

Breaking down barriers between communities

Sophie Castro
Photo by Portia Wiggins

Indianapolis Underground

Indiana

Maurice Broaddus

A Voice for Freedom

Delaware

Lora Bilton Englehart

Editor’s Note

David Skinner

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