November/December 2012
In This Issue November/December 2012
Volume 33, Issue 6
Detail of Guastavino tile arches at the Oyster Bar, Grand Central Terminal, New York City
Michael Freeman
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Features
Children of the Dust
The Dirty Thirties as witnessed by people who were actually there.
By James Williford
Celebrating Freedom
The meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation, for those at the time and for us today.
By Kevin Mahnken
Remarkable Radical: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight.
By Steve Moyer
The Image of a Writer
Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.
By Randall Fuller
Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
By Anna Maria Gillis
When Bram Met Walt
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.
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Departments
Statements
A Voyage to Freedom
Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina.
By Meredith GoodThe Evolution of Ole Miss
Fifty years ago, James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi.
By Amy LifsonOne-Off
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Richard Slotkin
The legacy of the Battle of Antietam.
By Edited by Meredith HindleyExecutive Function
EdNote
Editor's Note, November/December 2012
From the vaulted arch to Celebrating Freedom.
By David Skinner
