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Alaska carving
Photo caption

Detail of the Tsimshian clan house front at the NEH-supported Sealaska Heritage Institute, made by David A. Boxley. The house front tells the Tsimshian story of Am’ala, responsible for carrying the weight of the world. 

—Photograph by Vincent Ricardel

Winter 2020
Volume 41, Issue 1

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Alaska Sojourn
Alaska Sojourn

A humanities travelog

 

Jon Parrish Peede
Photographs by Vincent Ricardel
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker’s Daring Wit

Her zingers still zing

Danny Heitman
Perry Miller
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill” 

The rise and fall of Perry Miller

Abram Van Engen

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Women’s Trousers and Such

The Ottoman influence on early western feminism

Sara Catterall
NEH and the Semiquincentennial

Talking about “A More Perfect  Union” with NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede

Humanities Staff
2019 National Humanities Medalists
David Skinner, Amy Lifson, Steve Moyer
2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Amy Lifson
One Page of the Graphic Novel Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir

A close reading

Esra Mirze Santesso
Celebrating the Humanities
Amy Lifson
Using Chemistry to Learn the Provenance of Clay Tablets
Mary Alexandra Agner
Reviving Ho-Chunk

Reclaiming a culture, beginning with its language

Timothy Wright
Frenemies John Muir and Gifford Pinchot

Have their differences been overstated?

Lukas Keel
Editor’s Note
David Skinner
How the Civil War Began in the American Southwest
Megan Kate Nelson
Benjamin Franklin and the Pamphlet Wars

How early Americans waged their wars in print

Barbara Basbanes Richter
Reading Kurt Vonnegut While Social Distancing

The author of Slapstick was a prophet of loneliness.

Peter Tonguette

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