May/June 2012
In This Issue May/June 2012
Wendell Berry, Landsman
NEH Chairman Jim Leach sits down with writer and farmer Wendell Berry, this year's Jefferson Lecturer.
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Volume 33, Issue 3
Guy Mendes
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Features
Friends and Allies
Over their staffs' objections, Roosevelt and Churchill set in motion the invasion of North Africa.
By Meredith HindleyExcerpts from the Writings of Wendell Berry
On work and the work of local culture
Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans
The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.
By Danny HeitmanParlor Politics
The area of Nook Farm was a hotbed for Stowe and her activist circle.
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Departments
Statements
The Life of a Norwegian Pioneer
One brother in South Dakota and one in Norway share their lives through letters.
By Amy LifsonJens Jensen Designs the Prairie
Jens Jensen found inspiration in the prairie for landscape design.
By Anna Maria GillisTraveling Photographer Captures Life on the Ranch
A traveling photographer captures the people and place of the American West.
By Elizabeth MartinCurio
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Carla L. Peterson
On Manhattan's nineteenth-century African-American community
By Meredith HindleyIn Focus
Maggie Coval of Colorado
Chautauquas, storytelling create "magical format" for the Humanities
By Lisa Marshall