Summer 2016
In This Issue Summer 2016
The Pulitzer Prize Turns 100
From puppet performances to photography exhibitions, 46 humanities councils celebrate 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize.
By Amy Lifson
Volume 37, Issue 3
This photo by Pulitzer Prize winner Manny Crisostomo will be shown in a retrospective exhibition of his work opening in Guam this September to mark 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize.
—© 2016 Manny Crisostomo
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Features
Why Nabokov’s Speak, Memory Still Speaks to Us
Fifty years after its arrival, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, continues to draw readers.
By Danny Heitman
Touring the New World Trade Center with Its Official Biographer
Getting to the bottom of the complicated rebuilding of an American icon.
By David Skinner
The Battle of Gettysburg Painted . . . in the Round!
Saved from rot, the Gettysburg Cyclorama puts viewers in the center of the Civil War battle.
By Eric Felten
Learning to Be Free While Sitting in a Maximum-Security Prison
Chicago program brings college-level humanities to maximum security.
By Nancy Shepherdson
This Shawl Belonged to Langston Hughes (True) and Was Worn by One of John Brown’s Men at Harpers Ferry (Well . . .).
By Steven Lubet and Rachel Maines
Free State of Jones the Movie Was Partly Inspired by The Free State of Jones the Book.
The Free State of Jones in Mississippi, led by a freethinking farmer, seceded from the Confederacy.
By Peter Tonguette
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H. L. Mencken Loved to Cover Political Conventions but Had Little Faith in Voters
Mencken was the poet laureate of political conventions.
By Danny Heitman
Who Said, “Compression Is the First Grace of Style”? Democritus or Demetrius?
An erroneous citation that lived on for decades in the text of a well-known poem.
By Steve Moyer
How Americans View Muslims—And What They Don’t See
Muslim Americans have more in common with their fellow citizens than the general public might expect.
By Erica Machulak
Six Degrees of Voltaire: How Computer Code Developed to Study the Enlightenment Is Connected to the Panama Papers
A tool developed to explore the epistolary connections of Enlightenment intellectuals is being used to put twenty-first-century "power players" in hot water.
By Jennifer Howard
How to Visit a Museum
Wearing the right shoes and other tips for getting the most from our palaces of culture
By Steve Moyer
NEH’s Founding Legislation in Lead Type
Human/Ties conference offered an opportunity to get your hands dirty.
By Steve Moyer
Academic Prose: Human/Ties Conference Looks at Gap Between the Academy and Popular Culture
Writers, editors, and thinkers discuss what makes good writing.
By David Skinner
John O’Hara Wrote about the Things Rich People Do. Why Isn’t He Still Famous?
Library of America releases a volume of O'Hara's acclaimed short stories.
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Departments
Statements
The Pulitzer Prize Turns 100
From puppet performances to photography exhibitions, 46 humanities councils celebrate 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize.
By Amy LifsonWhat Happened the Day After the Boston Massacre?
Tempers flare when Colonial Bostonians debate what do to with violence in their city.
By J. L. BellExecutive Function
Alabama’s Armand DeKeyser
A former U.S. Senate chief of staff makes the humanities accessible.
By Laura AxelrodEdNote
