Summer 2017 | National Endowment for the Humanities

Illustration of Henry David Thoreau

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Read about Henry David Thoreau as he discovers the authorial voice that will make him famous.

Riccardo Vecchio

Summer 2017

Volume 38, Issue 3

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Independence Day Special: How I Learned to Love Patriotic Poetry

Leah Weinryb Grohsgal

World War I Changed America and Transformed Its Role in International Relations

So why don't we pay more attention to it?

Meredith Hindley

Historians Disagree About Everything, or So It Seems

Including what to remember, what to teach, and much else

Clifton Fadiman Didn’t Mind Being Called Schoolmasterish

His Lifetime Reading Plan was an erudite book list for everyman.

Helvetia, a Traditional Swiss Village in the Hills of West Virginia

The place to go for ramps and Fasnacht

Connecticut Remembers

World War I Through Letters, Diaries, and Other Personal Possessions

Connecticut's citizens preserve memories of World War I

Tom Christopher

Courts and Communities Work Together for Native-American Justice

A new film looks at how tribal courts restore lives.

Kristina Perkins

Searching for the True Origins of the Louvre’s Winged Victory.

For more than 2,000 years, the Winged Victory of Samothrace has been surrounded in mystery, and still she beguiles.

A Museum Curator Learns That Trading in Sacred Objects Can Be a Shady Business

Gary Vikan, former director of the Walters Art Museum, talks about Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director

Executive Function with Angel Ysaguirre

In Illinois, the humanities council puts its efforts into civic discourse.

Laura Wolff Scanlan

Editor’s Note