Photo caption Some are reading and some are swimming in the summer issue of Humanities. —Private Collection © T. S. Harris / Bridgeman Images Summer 2021 Volume 42, Issue 3 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Suburban Dwelling John Cheever was the bard of the backyard Peter Tonguette Eleanor Roosevelt, Newspaper Columnist Six days a week for almost three decades, the pioneering first lady explored what it’s like to be an American Danny Heitman Story Cloths An excerpt from All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Tiya Miles Shakespeare in Sign Georgia Amy Lifson When the Show Can’t Go On Nevada Laura Wolff Scanlan Executive Function with Virginia’s Matthew Gibson Ed Miller Courtly Love at Forest Hills Steve Moyer NEH Grants NEH Staff Editor’s Note David Skinner Ex Libris 2021 Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Staff Japan Had Lofty Goals for the 1964 Paralympics Dennis J. Frost Masks of Valor Art from a veterans’ humanities course helps commemorate 9/11 Norah Machia
Eleanor Roosevelt, Newspaper Columnist Six days a week for almost three decades, the pioneering first lady explored what it’s like to be an American Danny Heitman
Story Cloths An excerpt from All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Tiya Miles
Ex Libris 2021 Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Staff
