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Articles with keyword "twentieth century"

The Death of James Lee Byars, 1982/1994

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Outside the Frame

By James Panero

How Asia changed the course of American art.

Image of the Garst family welcomin Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 (Roswell Garst, cen

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Khrushchev in Iowa

By Michael Knock

Coon Rapids, Iowa, was crawling with spies.

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In Focus

Maryland’s Phoebe Stein Davis

By Donna M. Lucey

Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant.

François Faber

Curio

Velo News

By Steve Moyer

Histories of bicycle racing often give in to hagiography, but historian Christopher S.

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What Words Are Worth

By R. Howard Bloch

In defense of the humanities.

Erik Jorgensen, executive director of the Maine Humanities Council

In Focus

Maine’s Erik Jorgensen

By Andrew Lawler

Erik Jorgensen, captain of the Maine Humanities Council.

Image of Wallace Stegner

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Proud Flesh

By Kenneth Fields

A recollection of Wallace Stegner.

James Leve

IQ

Impertinent Questions with James Leve

On the composers of Cabaret and Chicago.

Image of definition of "aint" from Webster's Second.

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Ain’t That the Truth

By David Skinner

Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.

Curio

Go West, Young Trickster

By Steve Moyer

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