Photo caption Caricature of Samuel Johnson © David Levine September/October 2009 Volume 30, Issue 5 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Taming the Savage City One hundred years later, Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago still inspires. Carl Smith Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy. James Williford Supremely Contentious The Transformation of “Advice and Consent” Meredith Hindley Night Physik Renaissance remedies to keep the terrors at bay Humanities Staff Revolt of the Masses Ethnic tensions between Irish and French Canadians in Fall River Humanities Staff Mission to Moscow An Irish poet reflects on his time in Idaho Humanities Staff Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Preserving an Ohio landmark Steve Moyer German American Heritage Center Preserving immigrant heritage in eastern Iowa and western Illinois Steve Moyer Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum Steve Moyer Alaska’s Gregory W. Kimura Bridging urban and rural worldviews with humanities programming. David Holthouse Impertinent Questions with Kathleen Fitzpatrick On scholarly communities in the digital age. Meredith Hindley Editor's Note David Skinner
Taming the Savage City One hundred years later, Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago still inspires. Carl Smith
Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy. James Williford
Revolt of the Masses Ethnic tensions between Irish and French Canadians in Fall River Humanities Staff
German American Heritage Center Preserving immigrant heritage in eastern Iowa and western Illinois Steve Moyer
Alaska’s Gregory W. Kimura Bridging urban and rural worldviews with humanities programming. David Holthouse
Impertinent Questions with Kathleen Fitzpatrick On scholarly communities in the digital age. Meredith Hindley