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Poster image of woman holding spear-like fountain pen

Traveling Man

Illinois explores the history of the profession shared by L. Frank Baum, Benedict Arnold, and Johnny Appleseed. 

By Corinne Zeman

humanities, November/December, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6
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Fearless Photographer

Washington celebrates photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.

humanities, November/December, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6
Seaside farmers plowing

Seashore Farmers

U-boats off the coast of Virginia.

By Emilie Raymer

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Dan Rice as Uncle Sam.

The Circus You Never Knew

The naughty nineteenth-century circus.

By Daniel Noonan

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Richard I. Dodge

Just Deserters

Pennsylvania soldiers dodging the Civil War.

By Corinne Zeman

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
<em>Looking Down the Trail</em>

Combat Artist

Vietnam War through the eyes of a South Dakota artist.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Civil War soldiers from Wisconsin

Badger Boys in Blue

Wisconsin remembers its Badger Boys who fought for the Union.

By Laura Wolff Scanlan

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4
Hogue painting

Fire on the Walls

Texas looks at the land through the eyes of artist Alexandre Hogue.

By Patricia Mora

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4

A Prison Debate

Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best.

By Beth Schwartzapfel

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4
Image raking for oysters off Tally's Point Reef, Chesapeake Bay, wood engraving

Oyster Wars

Wayward Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay

By Anna Maria Gillis

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3