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Steam retort

Canny Retort

In Baltimore, the museum of industry charms.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Book: <em>Wilsonian Moment</em>

They'll Always Have Paris

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points: Raising expectations of emerging national leaders.

By Emilie Raymer

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Franklin School

Capital Gains

Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C.,

By Steve Moyer

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4
Blast issue no. 1

Paging Modernism . . .

By Steve Moyer

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

Of Circles, Terraces, and Spheres

A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something?

By Steve Moyer

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4
Image of cover of Cita Excelentissima

City Desk

Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Ven

By Steve Moyer

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

Them Is Fightin' Words

An attempt at summing up NEH-funded Daniel Justin Herman’s intriguing Hell on the Range (Yale University Press, 2010) could wind up sounding like an allegory: Into Pleasant Valley there once

By Steve Moyer

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Image of Astrolabe, M-26, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL

History of Science at the Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, May/June, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Image of Josef Albers

Intellectual Retreat

Josef Albers (pictured) was one of the innovative teachers at short-lived Black Mountain College in Asheville, NC.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 3
Image of stained glass window

Stained-Glass Heaven

The Bosco-Milligan Foundation / Architectural Heritage Center in Portland has preserved hundreds of stained-glass windows from the mid to late nineteenth century, including work from the celebrated Po

By Steve Moyer

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