Photo caption Guy Mendes May/June 2012 Volume 33, Issue 3 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The Thing (or Things) About Wendell Berry Mark Bittman Friends and Allies At the Second Washington Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill set in motion the invasion of North Africa over their staffs' objections. Meredith Hindley Excerpts from the Writings of Wendell Berry NEH Staff Underwater Clues Two of Florida's oldest shipwrecks reveal colonists' hopes. James Williford The Life of a Norwegian Pioneer One brother in South Dakota and one in Norway share their lives through letters. Amy Lifson Jens Jensen Designs the Prairie Jens Jensen found inspiration in the prairie for landscape design. Anna Maria Gillis Traveling Photographer Captures Life on the Ranch A traveling photographer captures the people and place of the American West. Elizabeth Martin Liberating Experience The music of protest Steve Moyer American Originals Modern-day Ojibwe maintain ties with language, cultural tradition Steve Moyer Girl Guides When the reading of "bad books" was a novel experience Steve Moyer Impertinent Questions with Carla L. Peterson On Manhattan's nineteenth-century African-American community Meredith Hindley Maggie Coval of Colorado Helping Coloradans share stories. Lisa Marshall
Friends and Allies At the Second Washington Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill set in motion the invasion of North Africa over their staffs' objections. Meredith Hindley
The Life of a Norwegian Pioneer One brother in South Dakota and one in Norway share their lives through letters. Amy Lifson
Jens Jensen Designs the Prairie Jens Jensen found inspiration in the prairie for landscape design. Anna Maria Gillis
Traveling Photographer Captures Life on the Ranch A traveling photographer captures the people and place of the American West. Elizabeth Martin
Impertinent Questions with Carla L. Peterson On Manhattan's nineteenth-century African-American community Meredith Hindley