Photo caption During the Great Depression, H. L. Mencken, pictured with cigar and quotations, regained the affections of the reading public by writing about his childhood. © Joe Ciardiello November/December 2014 Volume 35, Issue 6 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue H. L. Mencken as a Boy? Oh, Boy! Mencken's memoirs show a softer side on the sardonic critic Danny Heitman Chattanooga versus the Supreme Court The Strange Case of Ed Johnson Meredith Hindley How a City Stroll Can Become a Trip in Deep Geological Time Touring with urban geology in mind David B. Williams The Founder of the Appalachian Trail Imagined Something Even Grander Utopian vision of a Harvard forestry grad Alex Hanson Memories of a Neighborhood Movie Theater, from When There Was Such a Thing Oral histories mark the role of the neighborhood movie house Julie Yue How to Worship Artemis and Get Something in Return Big show on Mount Solmissos Steve Moyer Wherever Syriac Is spoken Gazetteer provides lay of the land Steve Moyer Ben Franklin’s German-Language Newspaper Foreign-language newspapers provided insights into immigration and cultural history Steve Moyer The Education of William Adams The new chairman of NEH almost failed out of college. He joined the Army, was sent to Vietnam, and came back a different person. NEH Staff Sea Captains Changed the Pacific World. David Igler Explains How. Western Americanist and native Californian David Igler on sea captains who sought their fortunes Anna Maria Gillis Chris Sommerich of Humanities Nebraska Is Taking Unconventional Approaches Executive director works for long-term stability to bring the humanities to all Nebraskans Dawn M. Garcia Editor's Note David Skinner
H. L. Mencken as a Boy? Oh, Boy! Mencken's memoirs show a softer side on the sardonic critic Danny Heitman
How a City Stroll Can Become a Trip in Deep Geological Time Touring with urban geology in mind David B. Williams
The Founder of the Appalachian Trail Imagined Something Even Grander Utopian vision of a Harvard forestry grad Alex Hanson
Memories of a Neighborhood Movie Theater, from When There Was Such a Thing Oral histories mark the role of the neighborhood movie house Julie Yue
Ben Franklin’s German-Language Newspaper Foreign-language newspapers provided insights into immigration and cultural history Steve Moyer
The Education of William Adams The new chairman of NEH almost failed out of college. He joined the Army, was sent to Vietnam, and came back a different person. NEH Staff
Sea Captains Changed the Pacific World. David Igler Explains How. Western Americanist and native Californian David Igler on sea captains who sought their fortunes Anna Maria Gillis
Chris Sommerich of Humanities Nebraska Is Taking Unconventional Approaches Executive director works for long-term stability to bring the humanities to all Nebraskans Dawn M. Garcia