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Image of the 7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C., 1861

An Appreciation: A Historian's Historian

A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust.

By David W. Blight

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Image of segregated bus station in Durham, North Carolina, 1940

Freedom Riders

Telling 436 stories in one documentary.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
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California's Cold War Museum

All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.

By David C. Engerman

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Image of Josh White with guitar

This Land Is Our Land

The Popular Front and American culture.

By Michael Kazin

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Lev Manovich in front of the HIPerSpace.

Graphing Culture

Lev Manovich uses supercomputing to see the big picture.

By James Williford

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2
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History's Exemplars

Richard Brookhiser shows the relevance of Alexander Hamilton to our modern lives.

By Andrew Ferguson

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2
sepia photograph of Mark Twain standing behind Henry H. Rogers in Bermuda, 1908

Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography

One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.

By Jerome Loving

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2
National Humanities Medal

Ten Extraordinary Lives

This year's class of National Humanities Medalists.

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2
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John Muir, Nature's Witness

The founder of the Sierra Club worshiped the outdoor world.

By Anna Maria Gillis

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2
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The Politics of Food

How America kept Russia from starving.

By Ronald Radosh

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2