January/February 2000
Editor's Note
Literary Revelations
Trying to Tame Huck Finn
NEH Chairman William R. Ferris talks with Boston teacher Nancy Methelis about
confronting controversy in a classic novel.
Uproar in the Classroom
A new film explores how the written word carries explosive consequences. By Robert Zalisk
Almost a Masterpiece
The early version of what became The Great Gatsby will soon
be in print. By James L. W. West III
The Nuances of Money
An interview with author James L. W. West III.
By Anna Maria Gillis
People and History
Eleanor Roosevelt, No Ordinary Woman
A documentary places the emphasis on Eleanor without Franklin. By Maggie Riechers
The New Deal Network
A website puts depression-era documents into schools. By Pedro Ponce
A Visit from Historian Shelby Foote
The writer shares reflections on the South and history. By Richard Carter
Crossroads of Art
A World of Spectacle
An exhibition examines eighteenth-century art in the city
that was the intersection of the classical and the contemporary. By Tom Stabile
Seven New Members Named to National Council
Linda Lee Aaker, Edward L Ayers, Ira Berlin,
Pedro G. Castillo, Evelyn Edson, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, and Theodore Striggles. By Lynn Erskine.
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