January/February 2008
In This Issue January/February 2008
The Early American Salon
In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.
By David S. Shields
Volume 29, Issue 1
Portrait of Richa Franks, attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck, circa 1735. Oil on canvas, 44 13/16 X 35 11/16 inches
Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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Features
The Orphan Scholar
Philip Lampi's lifelong quest to document elections of the early Republic.
By Katherine Mangu-Ward
One Country, Many Programs
A sampler of We the People projects from the Founders to Mark Twain to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
By Meredith Hindley
"Terrific in Denunciation"
Abraham Lincoln's legal papers reveal a surprising cache of sundry clients and dramatic litigation.
By Douglas L. Wilson
Hebrew National
Not just Torah and gefilte fish: A new film shows the complexity of life as a Jewish American.
By Joseph Epstein -
Departments
One-Off
Soldiers in the Garden
An "unwilling participant" in the American Revolution writes from her fortified Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.
She’s Crafty
Domesticity on the rise in Oregon.
Of Stillness and Light
With Henry David Thoreau, winter walks can quickly turn into "frolic gambols."
Impertinent Questions
Newspaper Contest in 1908 asked "When Is It Time to Go Home?"
Conversation
Letters From Robert E. Lee
Elizabeth Brown Pryor talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her dual careers as a historian of antebellum America and a highly decorated diplomat working for the State Department.
Executive Function
What about Bob?
Robert Bailey fosters grassroots humanities programs in Arkansas.
By John C. WilliamsEdNote
