Current Issue Photo caption For this issue on education and the humanities, our cover illustration by John Cuneo shows a virtual classroom. —John Cuneo Fall 2020 Volume 41, Issue 4 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Classics How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines" Martha S. Jones A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known. The pirate next door. Mark G. Hanna Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs What Unicode will make possible Erica Machulak Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn’t Happen. The origins of the Library of America were a messy business. David Skinner Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated Steven Nadler How America Became “A City Upon a Hill” The rise and fall of Perry Miller Abram Van Engen The Messy Genius of W. H. Auden A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order. Danny Heitman World War I Changed America and Transformed Its Role in International Relations So why don't we pay more attention to it? Meredith Hindley
How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines" Martha S. Jones
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known. The pirate next door. Mark G. Hanna
Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn’t Happen. The origins of the Library of America were a messy business. David Skinner
World War I Changed America and Transformed Its Role in International Relations So why don't we pay more attention to it? Meredith Hindley