Photo caption This photo by Pulitzer Prize winner Manny Crisostomo will be shown in a retrospective exhibition of his work opening in Guam this September to mark 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize. © 2016 Manny Crisostomo Summer 2016 Volume 37, Issue 3 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Academic Prose: Human/Ties Conference Looks at Gap Between the Academy and Popular Culture Writers, editors, and thinkers discuss what makes good writing. David Skinner NEH’s Founding Legislation in Lead Type Human/Ties Conference Demonstrates Traditional Printing Methods Steve Moyer E. B. White’s Song of Summer Timeless and poignant, "Once More to the Lake" still speaks to the passing of life's seasons. Danny Heitman John O’Hara Wrote about the Things Rich People Do. Why Isn’t He Still Famous? Library of America releases a volume of O'Hara's acclaimed short stories. Peter Tonguette How to Visit a Museum Wearing the right shoes and other tips for getting the most from our palaces of culture Steve Moyer Six Degrees of Voltaire How computer code developed to study the Enlightenment is connected to the Panama Papers Jennifer Howard In the Edgy Culture of Brazil, the American Poet Elizabeth Bishop Felt Quite at Home. "The loneliest person who ever lived," she once called herself. Danny Heitman How Americans View Muslims—And What They Don’t See A pollster reports his findings Erica Machulak Who Said, “Compression Is the First Grace of Style”? Democritus or Demetrius? A fact-checker investigates. Steve Moyer This Shawl Belonged to Langston Hughes (True) and Was Worn by One of John Brown’s Men at Harpers Ferry (Well . . .). Our objects tell amazing stories, not all of them accurate. Steven Lubet and Rachel Maines The Pulitzer Prize Turns 100 Here's How the State Humanities Councils Have Joined the Celebration Amy Lifson What Happened the Day After the Boston Massacre? J. L. Bell The Battle of Gettysburg Painted . . . in the Round! A famous battle, a once famous painting Eric Felten Learning to Be Free While Sitting in a Maximum-Security Prison The Humanities Behind Bars Nancy Shepherdson Alabama’s Armand DeKeyser A former U.S. Senate chief of staff makes the humanities accessible. Laura Axelrod Editor’s Note David Skinner
Academic Prose: Human/Ties Conference Looks at Gap Between the Academy and Popular Culture Writers, editors, and thinkers discuss what makes good writing. David Skinner
NEH’s Founding Legislation in Lead Type Human/Ties Conference Demonstrates Traditional Printing Methods Steve Moyer
E. B. White’s Song of Summer Timeless and poignant, "Once More to the Lake" still speaks to the passing of life's seasons. Danny Heitman
John O’Hara Wrote about the Things Rich People Do. Why Isn’t He Still Famous? Library of America releases a volume of O'Hara's acclaimed short stories. Peter Tonguette
How to Visit a Museum Wearing the right shoes and other tips for getting the most from our palaces of culture Steve Moyer
Six Degrees of Voltaire How computer code developed to study the Enlightenment is connected to the Panama Papers Jennifer Howard
In the Edgy Culture of Brazil, the American Poet Elizabeth Bishop Felt Quite at Home. "The loneliest person who ever lived," she once called herself. Danny Heitman
Who Said, “Compression Is the First Grace of Style”? Democritus or Demetrius? A fact-checker investigates. Steve Moyer
This Shawl Belonged to Langston Hughes (True) and Was Worn by One of John Brown’s Men at Harpers Ferry (Well . . .). Our objects tell amazing stories, not all of them accurate. Steven Lubet and Rachel Maines
The Pulitzer Prize Turns 100 Here's How the State Humanities Councils Have Joined the Celebration Amy Lifson
The Battle of Gettysburg Painted . . . in the Round! A famous battle, a once famous painting Eric Felten
Learning to Be Free While Sitting in a Maximum-Security Prison The Humanities Behind Bars Nancy Shepherdson
Alabama’s Armand DeKeyser A former U.S. Senate chief of staff makes the humanities accessible. Laura Axelrod