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For this issue on health and humanities, our cover illustration by Wenjia Tang shows an idealized community, its parts in balance with each other and with nature.

Summer 2020
Volume 41, Issue 3

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Editor's Note
black and white portraits of Louise Dupe and Maryanne Wolf
Citizen Readers

An interview with Louise Dubé and Maryanne Wolf about civics and the reading brain

Jon Parrish Peede
Dancer Alice Sheppard performs onstage with arms outstretched.
Body of Work

Sara Hendren knows that one size does not fit all

Elizabeth Word Gutting
Painting by Wilhelm List of a deceased woman, St. Elizabeth, carried by angels.
A Beautiful Ending

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow

Nicholas A. Basbanes

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AIDS in One City: The San Francisco Story

How an archive captures recent history

David Skinner
NEH Grants
James Flynn
NEH CARES Grants
Amy Lifson
Elvis Presley Gets His Polio Shot
David Skinner
The Last Pandemic

Using history to guide us in the difficult present

E. Thomas Ewing
Irena Sendler and the Girls from Kansas
Jack Mayer
Executive Function with Delaware's Michele Anstine
Jordan Howell
Martin Seligman and the Rise of Positive Psychology
Peter Gibbon
Monumental Women

Adelaide Johnson, the Sculptor of Suffrage

Kimberly A. Hamlin 
Roughing It (with Servants, of Course)

How the Adirondacks became the hot vacation spot of the Gilded Age

Randi Storch and Kevin B. Sheets
Thomas Mann’s Civilized Uncertainty
Algis Valiunas
Stolen Across the Ohio
W. Caleb McDaniel
The Wild All Around

The environmental humanities help us see our own nature. 

Vyta Baselice

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