Spring 2017 | National Endowment for the Humanities

Martha C. Nussbaum

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Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum is giving this year’s Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 1.

Robert Tolchin Photography

Spring 2017

Volume 38, Issue 2

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The Dismal Swamp: One Road Out of Slavery Took You Straight into the Boggiest Place You’ve Ever Been.

Archaeologists in Virginia seek to know more about the lives of slaves who escaped and lived off the land.

William H. Funk

Ex libris: Books Recently Published with NEH Support

NEH Staff

What Did Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and E. B. White Have in Common?

St. Nicholas magazine inspired them all.

The Play Speaks to You: How a Translator Stays True to the Text and Connects with the Audience

Hollywood Chose to Tell Half the Story of this Daring Coast Guard Rescue

Amid waves that topped 70 feet, two 500-foot tankers split apart just off Cape Cod.

Spanish Conquistadors and Mexican Vaqueros in the Lone Star State

Portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and historical maps flesh out the cultural history.

Object Lesson: Did Aristotle Really Humiliate Himself for Phyllis?

Medieval Feasts Sometimes Had a Moral Tossed in with the Meal

Anna Maria Gillis

Executive Function with Deborah Watrous

Impertinent Questions with A. Roger Ekirch

How did the most violent mutiny in British naval history shape the U.S. presidential election of 1800?

Anna Maria Gillis

Editor’s Note