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Editor's Note
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
Archive
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