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                      Humanities:                                                                        The Magazine of the                                                        National Endowment for the Humanities

Editor's Note

          Cover of January/February 2008 Humanities                                                           
            Celebrating five years of We the People

Contents

Letters from Robert E. Lee
Elizabeth Brown Pryor talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her dual careers as a historian of antebellum America and a highly decorated diplomat working for the State Department.

Informed Patriotism
NEH celebrates five years of the
WE the People.
By Bruce Cole

Hebrew National
Not just Torah and gefilte fish: A new film shows the complexity of life as a Jewish American.
By Joseph Epstein

Terrific in Denunciation
Abraham Lincoln's legal papers reveal a surprising cache of sundry clients and dramatic litigation.
By Douglas L. Wilson

The Early American Salon
In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.
By David S. Shields

King Andrew and the Bank
Andrew Jackson stares down the national bank and wins.
By Daniel Feller

One Country, Many Programs
A sampler of We the People projects from the Founders to Mark Twain to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
By Meredith Hindley

The Orphan Scholar
Philip Lampi's lifelong quest to document elections of the early Repblic.
By Katherine Mangu-Ward

Curio
Curio: Soldiers in the garden; She's cafty; Of stillness and light; Impertinent questions.

Around the Nation
Yodeling at Breakneck Speed
Illinois documents its musical heritage from tamburitza to gospel.
By Daniel Scheuerman

In Focus
Robert Bailey fosters grassroots humanities programs in Arkansas.
By John C. Williams

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