November/December 2013
In This Issue November/December 2013
Volume 34, Issue 6
Eye-catching neon signs from the fifties have recently been restored in Tucson. With a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council, Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation has published a guide to these roadside treasures. See "The Siren Glow." in this issue.
—ⓒ fotovitamina [r.salonia+m.yates]
-
Features
Africans in America
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross tells the story of a people whose sense of identity is distinctly apart and distinctly American
By Chad L. Williams
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Using modern technology to understand a network of eighteenth-century thinkers.
By Meredith Hindley
Manifest Beauty
"Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints," featuring the art of Brazil is on exhibit in Detroit.
By Tory Cooney
The Ambiguous Agassiz
This patriarch of American science was an enemy of Darwin.
By Christoph Irmscher
Earthy Wisdom
Aldo Leopold's visionary thinking still guides today's environmental stewards.
By Danny Heitman -
Departments
Statements
A Memory of Survival
A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art.
By Anna Maria GillisOne-Off
Tony Brown: “Television’s Civil Rights Crusader”
Show served as time capsule of pioneering days of black journalists
By Steve MoyerEclectic Verses
From Yemeni tribesmen to Pakistani truck drivers, poetry speaks to Muslim world.
By Steve Moyer“The Greatest Genius of Mankind”
Website on Gulag presents daily struggle for survival
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Cynthia A. Kierner
On the devoted oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson.
By Meredith Hindley
