March/April 2015
In This Issue March/April 2015
America, Word for Word
Chairman Adams interviews 2015 Jefferson Lecturer Anna Deavere Smith.
Volume 36, Issue 2
Anna Deavere Smith is this year's Jefferson Lecturer.
—Nancy Crampton
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Features
August Wilson's Blues Poetry
The playwright gave expression to a century of black voices.
By Michael Eric Dyson
Theater of War
Aquila Theatre and YouStories bring veterans together with ancient Greek drama.
By Jacob Siegel
How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale
The surprising history behind the world’s most famous collection of folk tales.
By Jack Zipes
Our Contemporary, Montaigne: He Pioneered the Personal Essay and Made Candor Literary
Montaigne invented the personal essay and made candor literary.
By Danny Heitman
Lincoln’s Assassination Stuns the Nation
President Lincoln, shot on Good Friday, was dead on Saturday, and mourned throughout the country on Easter Sunday, 1865.
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Departments
Statements
Protecting Art in War
Yale's Deane Keller became a Monuments Man and helped save Italy's treasures.
By Thomas ChristopherGardens of Presidents
Gardening was a pasttime and passion for the Founding Fathers.
By Diane M. BittingOne-Off
Center of the West Displays Powerful Art and Artifacts of Bison Culture
Bear-claw necklaces, warriors' shields, and horse masks greet visitors to Paul Dyck Collection.
By Steve MoyerNevadan Cowboy Artist Will James Never Revealed His Unlikely Provenance
His forte lay in depicting what it felt like to be on a spirited mount.
By Steve MoyerPaper Toys Scale Monumental Heights in Historical Society Collection
Industrial Revolution made space for playthings for children.
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Anthropologist Daniel Sayers on Maroons Who Found Freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp
Non-Indiana Jones-style archaeology takes a bow in southern Virginia.
By Steve MoyerEdNote
