January/February 2010
In This Issue January/February 2010
Violent But Charming
The Dictionary of Old English explores the brutality and elegance of our ancestral tongue.
By Ammon Shea
Volume 31, Issue 1
Many works by William Blake, including his interpretation of Chaucer’s pilgrims, are among the holdings of the Morgan Library & Museum.
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Features
The Museum of Morgan
At the recently expanded Morgan Library, visitors encounter architectural treasures and a peerless collection of manuscripts and art.
By Francis Morrone
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Departments
Statements
Jewish Pioneers
A New York program discusses how Jewish settlers shaped the Wild West.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanCurio
Love and Hate during Wartime
In the Lizzie Gilmore collection of family letters, available through Community and Conflict, a new digital archive devoted to life in the Ozarks during the Civil War, the formalities of correspondenc
By David SkinnerApocalypse Not
In few fields is the gap separating educated opinion from specialist opinion so wide as in linguistics.
By Steve MoyerVoici the Valley
When most of us hear talk of Acadians, we think of Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline and of the British forcing French-speakers from eastern, maritime Canada in the mid eighteenth century.
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Melvin I. Urofsky
On the life of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
By Meredith Hindley (edited by)In Focus
North Carolina’s Shelley Crisp
Poet Shelley Crisp brings her passion for place to North Carolina.
By Jim SchlosserEdNote
Editor's Note, January/February 2010
During a recession, everyone reaches for their green eyeshade. Unless it’s cheap, we don’t buy it. If it’s not certain to pay off, we don’t invest.
By David Skinner
