May/June 2011
In This Issue May/June 2011
An Appreciation: A Historian's Historian
A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust.
Volume 32, Issue 3
Drew Gilpin Faust, 2011 Jefferson Lecturer© Mark Morelli
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Features
California's Cold War Museum
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.
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Departments
Statements
Milton and the Cultures of Print
New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library.
By Thomas FultonOne-Off
City Desk
Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Ven
By Steve MoyerThem Is Fightin’ Words
Disputes in Mogollon Rim in late nineteenth century inspired stories by Zane Grey.
By Steve MoyerHistory of Science at the Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here.
By Steve MoyerIntellectual Retreat
Educational experiment attracted artists, musicians, free spirits
By Steve MoyerConversation
Personal History
NEH Chairman Jim Leach talks with Drew Gilpin Faust, daughter of the South, president of Harvard, and this year's Jefferson Lecturer.
Impertinent Questions
EdNote
Editor's Note, May/June 2011
How is it that our culture has studied and written and published large libraries’ worth of new books on the Civil War, and yet reading Drew Gilpin Faust, this year’s Jefferson Lecturer, is like discov
By David Skinner