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Go West, Young Trickster

From Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West, wherein Duke research professor in Canadian studies Arnold E.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, November/December, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 6

Night Physik

From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5

Revolt of the Masses

From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5

Mission to Moscow

From Idaho Humanities, in which this account by Irish poet and Fulbright Scholar Kevin Kiely appeared at the request of the council as his two-year stint teaching and researching in Idaho

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5
Bronze winged foot from Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, OH

Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens

Stan Hywet (stone quarry in Old English) was built between 1912 and 1915 near Akron, OH, by cofounder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company F. A. Seiberling.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5
Zither from the collections of the German American Heritage Center

German American Heritage Center

The zither, commonly found in southern Germany and other parts of alpine Europe, produces the “oompahs” so typical of German folk music.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5
19th-century miner's lunch pail from the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a ca

By Steve Moyer

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5

Baskerville Hounded

From The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765–1810 by Thomas F. Bonnell, published by Oxford University Press, 2008.

humanities, July/August, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 4

Wild Time in the Poconos

From The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume I, May 1832–April 1833, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, in which the aristocratic naturalist and

humanities, July/August, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 4

Good Stable Manners

In Ancient Rome and Modern America, NEH-funded scholar Margaret Malamud looks at the ways visions of the imperial city have been incorporated into everything from the Constitution to Caes

humanities, July/August, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 4