Photo caption Anna Deavere Smith is this year's Jefferson Lecturer. Nancy Crampton March/April 2015 Volume 36, Issue 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Our Contemporary, Montaigne: He Made Candor Literary Creating classic works from passing thoughts Danny Heitman The Many Faces of Anna Deavere Smith NEH Staff Protecting Art in War Yale's Deane Keller became a Monuments Man and helped save Italy's treasures. Tom Christopher Thinking About the West Montana puts Western writing on the air. Forrest Hartman Gardens of Presidents Gardening was a pastime and passion for the Founding Fathers. Diane M. Bitting Center of the West Displays Powerful Art and Artifacts of Bison Culture Bear-claw necklaces, warriors' shields, and horse masks greet visitors to Paul Dyck Collection. Steve Moyer Nevadan Cowboy Artist Will James Never Revealed His Unlikely Provenance His forte lay in depicting what it feltlike to be on a spirited mount. Steve Moyer Paper Toys Scale Monumental Heights in Historical Society Collection Industrial Revolution made space for playthings for children. Steve Moyer Anthropologist Daniel Sayers on the Great Dismal Swamp They created their own world Steve Moyer Theater of War Aquila Theatre and YouStories bring veterans together with ancient Greek drama Jacob Siegel Editor’s Note David Skinner
Our Contemporary, Montaigne: He Made Candor Literary Creating classic works from passing thoughts Danny Heitman
Protecting Art in War Yale's Deane Keller became a Monuments Man and helped save Italy's treasures. Tom Christopher
Center of the West Displays Powerful Art and Artifacts of Bison Culture Bear-claw necklaces, warriors' shields, and horse masks greet visitors to Paul Dyck Collection. Steve Moyer
Nevadan Cowboy Artist Will James Never Revealed His Unlikely Provenance His forte lay in depicting what it feltlike to be on a spirited mount. Steve Moyer
Paper Toys Scale Monumental Heights in Historical Society Collection Industrial Revolution made space for playthings for children. Steve Moyer
Theater of War Aquila Theatre and YouStories bring veterans together with ancient Greek drama Jacob Siegel