Photo caption Cover story is on Ric Burns's new documentary The Pilgrims. Sterling Hundley November/December 2015 Volume 36, Issue 6 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The Future of the Humanities: Reading As technology advances, doomsaying remains constant. Michael Dirda Veterans in Tampa Bay Tell Their Stories The stories on stage reflect the range of veterans’ experiences as well as their similarities. Victoria Cooney How the Once-Banned Spoon River Anthology Made a Comeback in Lewistown Poetic justice in small-town America Laura Wolff Scanlan Eternal City’s Building Craze also Bolstered Urban Planning Study demonstrates that a public voice can help develop a theocratic city Steve Moyer Late Medieval Architectural Embellishments Left Traces on Early Renaissance Ironic term makes unequivocal mark Steve Moyer Atlanta, School Teachers, and the History of Race Relations Visits to sites relating to city's Jim Crow past have lasting impact Steve Moyer Impertinent Questions with Michael D. Gordin On the evolution of a common language for science. Anna Maria Gillis Adam Davis of Oregon Humanities Head of OH plants seeds for discussion, not consensus. Brett Campbell Editor’s Note David Skinner
The Future of the Humanities: Reading As technology advances, doomsaying remains constant. Michael Dirda
Veterans in Tampa Bay Tell Their Stories The stories on stage reflect the range of veterans’ experiences as well as their similarities. Victoria Cooney
How the Once-Banned Spoon River Anthology Made a Comeback in Lewistown Poetic justice in small-town America Laura Wolff Scanlan
Eternal City’s Building Craze also Bolstered Urban Planning Study demonstrates that a public voice can help develop a theocratic city Steve Moyer
Late Medieval Architectural Embellishments Left Traces on Early Renaissance Ironic term makes unequivocal mark Steve Moyer
Atlanta, School Teachers, and the History of Race Relations Visits to sites relating to city's Jim Crow past have lasting impact Steve Moyer
Impertinent Questions with Michael D. Gordin On the evolution of a common language for science. Anna Maria Gillis
Adam Davis of Oregon Humanities Head of OH plants seeds for discussion, not consensus. Brett Campbell