May/June 2015
In This Issue May/June 2015
The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows
For more than a century, Coney Island has stirred our senses.
By Tom Christopher
Volume 36, Issue 3
Robert Riggs’s July 4 at Coney Island, 1938. Read how Coney Island has inspired the American imagination.
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Features
Those Slippery Snake Stories
One story morphs into many when the newspapers get involved.
By Andie Tucher
Virginia Woolf Was More Than Just a Women’s Writer
“A Room of One’s Own is a formative feminist document, but critic Robert Kanigel argues that men are cheating themselves if they don’t embrace the book, too.”
By Danny Heitman
For a Brief Time in the 1930s, Radio Station WLW in Ohio Became America’s One and Only “Super Station”
The Nation’s Station.
By Katy June-Friesen
Madam Sacho: How One Iroquois Woman Survived the American Revolution
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her story lives on.
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Departments
Statements
Life-Sized Portraits of the Kings and Queens of Nigeria
A hoto exhibit at the Newark Museum.
By Mary Jo PattersonPicturing the Farms of Ohio and Pennsylvania
An itinerant artist chronicles farm life in America.
By Dorothy ShinnOne-Off
In Mid Twentieth Century, Folly Cove Artisans Reunited Designers and Craftsmen
Local aesthetic caught eye of national retailers.
By Steve MoyerMurty Classical Library of India Sheds Light on Sixteenth-century Lyrical Poet Surdas
Poems in the style proliferated for centuries.
By Steve MoyerPennsylvania’s Simon Cameron Staged Honorific Tribute of Black Troops After Civil War
Review in Harrisburg was a capital idea.
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Now in English: The Memoir of a Robinson Crusoe à la française
Bon voyage, armchair travelers! Carla Zecher follows the perigrinations of an eighteenth-century French lieutenant.
By Edited by Steve MoyerExecutive Function
Nina Kemppel Came Home to Lead Alaska Humanities Forum
The humanities have a big impact on Alaskan life.
By Kathleen McCoyEdNote
