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Classics

A selection of old favorites.
G. Harold Carswell in his Tallahassee, Florida, chambers, April 1970.

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Supremely Contentious

The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”

By Meredith Hindley

humanities, September/October, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 5
Cartoon showing Pegler charging racketeers with a pen

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Who Was Westbrook Pegler?

The original right-wing takedown artist

By David Witwer

humanities, March/April, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 2
Stein in France with her longtime friend Bernard Faÿ

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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

By Barbara Will

humanities, March/April, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 2
Etching of Rousseau

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Friends of Rousseau

Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.

By Leo Damrosch

humanities, July/August, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 4
Image of John Muir

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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
Robert E. Lee astride Traveller

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How Did Robert E. Lee Become an American Icon?

The man was remembered, but not his cause.

By James C. Cobb

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4
Image of Josh White with guitar

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This Land Is Our Land

The Popular Front and American culture.

By Michael Kazin

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

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Freedom Riders

Telling 436 stories in one documentary.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Young Union soldier with bayoneted musket, knife, and revolver.

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"Daybreak Gray and Dim"

How the Civil War changed Walt Whitman's poetry.

By Randall Fuller

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Sir Isaac Newton, by Samuel Freeman, (1773–1857)

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Newton, The Last Magician

The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.

By Sam Kean

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1