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Malinche
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Malinche looked every bit the survivor in the exhibition “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche.”   

 

—Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Phoenix Art Museum: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art, 1979.86. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project. Reproduced with permission. 

Winter 2023
Volume 44, Issue 1

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Gabrielle Suchon, Philosopher Queen of the Amazons

Centuries before the rise of feminism, this underappreciated thinker wrote to set women free

Julie Walsh
Rocking Beauty
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A visit to the Strong Museum

Steve Moyer
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Looking back at a great writer

Danny Heitman

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Radical Hospitality in an Ancient Greek Text

Tennessee

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Editor’s Note
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