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                      Humanities:                                                                        The Magazine of the                                                        National Endowment for the Humanities
  Cover of September/October 2008 Humanities Wooden fishing lures from the Shelburne’s folk art collection.

—Photo courtesy Shelburne Museum
Wooden fishing lures from the Shelburne’s
folk art collection.
—Photo courtesy Shelburne Museum
Contents
The Revisionist
Writer Amity Shlaes talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her take on the Great Depression.

From the Horse’s Mouth
Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously.
By Andrew Lawler

Farmhouse Mod
Great art meets folk art at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum.
By Sarah Stewart Taylor

One Master, Many Cervantes
Numerous translations of Don Quixote, some made without knowledge of Spanish, attest to the novel’s long reach.
By Ilan Stavans

Poe Man’s Immortality
The great writer lives on in cartoons and comic books.
By Edward Lawrence

Vodka in South Bend
Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.
By Joseph Horowitz

Around the Nation
Muscle Memory
The choreography of Ulysses Dove lives on in New Orleans.
By Michaela Cannon
In Focus
Connecticut’s Bruce Fraser stands up for the quieter, shy sister of the arts.
By Cathy Shufro
Departments
Curio From Revival to Rock ’n’ Roll; Road to the White House, 1908 edition; Golem Revival.

Impertinent Questions
with Kristine Harper

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