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 Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  Cover of November/December 2009 Humanities of the Kangxi Emporor’ Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji’nan to Mount Tai.
Detail from the Kangxi Emperor’s Sourthern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji’nan to Mount Tai, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 1698 Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632-1717) and assistants; Handscroll; ink and color on silk; 26 3/4 x 548 1/2 in (67.8 x 1393.8 cm).
—The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1979 (1979.5a–d).
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contents
NEH Chairman Jim Leach takes us from his high-school wrestling days through the stages of his political career to his thoughts on the challenges facing humanity—and the humanities—in the twenty-first century.
Ben-Hur
The book that shook the world.
By Amy Lifson
Ben-Hur Central
The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum.
Imperial Scrolls of China
Monumental paintings from the Qing dynasty document the power of its emperors.
By Meredith Hindley
Around the Nation
Cowhunters are remembered in Florida and Mrs Hale, who lobbied for our modern Thanksgiving, is portrayed in New Hampshire. More from these and other states.
Compiled by Laura Wolff Scanlan
In Focus
Peter Gilbert recruits top scholars to Vermont’s monthly gatherings.
By Sarah Stewart Taylor
Archive
Past issues of HUMANITIES are archived online.
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