Winter 2020

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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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

The National Endowment for the Humanities