September/October 2014
In This Issue September/October 2014
How James McNeill Whistler Became a Brand and Fought for It in Court
James McNeill Whistler and John Ruskin battled over what makes a work worthy to be deemed art
By Mary Zajac
Volume 35, Issue 5
James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves, a studio assistant to Whistler in London, where Whistler defended his experimental work in court. See "How did James McNeill Whistler create his distinctive brand?"
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Features
Nineteenth-Century Whaler Takes Twenty-First Century Voyage
Over a hundred seventy years after its birth, the Charles W. Morgan makes its way through New England's waters.
By Charlotte Bruce Harvey
Susan Sontag, Essayist and So Much Else
A new film on Susan Sontag gives an intimate look at her passions.
By Emily St. John Mandel
Bird Artist John Gould and the Man Who Lost a Fortune Collecting Him
The story of an entrepreneurial artist and an avid book collector
By Steve Moyer
The Roosevelt Bond: How War and Politics Brought FDR and TR Closer
Politics and war brought Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever closer.
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Departments
Statements
Getting to the Roots of Jewish Comedy
Tracing Jewish-American comedy through the Borsht Belt and beyond
By Julie YueThe Highwaymen, a School of African-American Artists Who Hawked Their Work on the Side of the Road
The art of Florida's Highwaymen finds a new audience
By Lynn WaddellOne-Off
After Much Debate, Not a Little Anguish, and Defining of Terms, Park Service Confirmed Site of Hostilities between Indians and Soldiers
Exact location of Sand Creek conflict had gone missing
By Steve MoyerJohn Donne Delivered a Sermon on Gunpowder Day in 1622. What Did It Sound Like?
Getting Donne down, virtually
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Sue Shillinglaw on Grapes of Wrath, Published Seventy-Five Years Ago
With Susan Shillinglaw on the 75th anniversary of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
By Meredith HindleyEdNote
