Photo caption Black Swan Record label, 1921 Mindspring Press November/December 2010 Volume 31, Issue 6 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue World Beaters In the early days of basketball, the girls from the Fort Shaw Indian School took on all comers. Delia Cabe Worshipped, Plundered, and Digitized The Buddhist Caves of Xiangtangshan Lauren Viera The First Dissenters George Mason swore he would rather "chop off his right hand" than sign the Constitution. Pauline Maier The Gorey Details Goreyphiles flock to Hawai'i for an exhibit of his dark-humored work. Laura Wolff Scanlan Mark Twain in Music A new music CD about Mark Twain is released in Missouri. Amy Lifson Schools for the South South Carolina remembers the era of Rosenwald schools. Laura Wolff Scanlan Comics and the Classical Tradition Comics are taken seriously in Washington state. Laura Wolff Scanlan Mon Dieu! Keeping French alive in Louisiana can be accompanied by great wailing Steve Moyer First, Count to Ten . . . in Pescadora Steve Moyer Poetry Speaks From Victorian times to the present, the accent has shifted from elocution to oral interpretation Steve Moyer Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Low platforms helped passengers in getting on and off streetcars and resulted in decreased running times and fewer accidents. Steve Moyer Impertinent Questions with John B. Hench On how books were used as weapons in World War II Meredith Hindley Ohio’s Gale Peterson Gale Peterson’s plan to teach high school history had one fatal flaw. Not his B.S. in History and Government from Iowa State University. Bill Eichenberger Editor's Note David Skinner
World Beaters In the early days of basketball, the girls from the Fort Shaw Indian School took on all comers. Delia Cabe
The First Dissenters George Mason swore he would rather "chop off his right hand" than sign the Constitution. Pauline Maier
The Gorey Details Goreyphiles flock to Hawai'i for an exhibit of his dark-humored work. Laura Wolff Scanlan
Comics and the Classical Tradition Comics are taken seriously in Washington state. Laura Wolff Scanlan
Poetry Speaks From Victorian times to the present, the accent has shifted from elocution to oral interpretation Steve Moyer
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Low platforms helped passengers in getting on and off streetcars and resulted in decreased running times and fewer accidents. Steve Moyer
Impertinent Questions with John B. Hench On how books were used as weapons in World War II Meredith Hindley
Ohio’s Gale Peterson Gale Peterson’s plan to teach high school history had one fatal flaw. Not his B.S. in History and Government from Iowa State University. Bill Eichenberger