Fall 2017

Americans and Vietnamese refugees in Hue in 1968

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March 1, 1968, Americans and Vietnamese refugees in Hue after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. Read about the making of The Vietnam War and about new scholarship.

Terry Fincher / Getty Images

Fall 2017

Volume 38, Issue 4

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Black and white photograph of two American soldiers in Pleiku, South Vietnam

Studying the Vietnam War

How the scholarship has changed.

Mark Atwood Lawrence

Addicted to Fame: From the Greeks to Lady Gaga

Today‘s students recognize themselves in Saint Augustine‘s “thirst for praise.”

David Haven Blake

O'hare, wearing a heavy dark overcoat, his hair ruffled by wind, with a cloudy gray sky behind him

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs

The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review.

Mark Athitakis

A Still Life of a Tazza with Flowers by Jan Brueghel the Younger.

Philosophers Who Like Stuff

Their case against frugality

Emrys Westacott

Also in this issue

An interview about interviewing with Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein of The Vietnam War

Unlocking the past one person at a time.

Meredith Hindley

On My Obsession with Sherwood Anderson

Revisiting Winesburg, Ohio again and again

Bruce Falconer

Pop Up Archive Filled a Need for Audio Archiving, and Apple Noticed

A service for transcribing and cataloging audio files hits the big time.

Jennifer Howard

One Artist’s Vision of Nebraska, County by County

The European landscape made him think of his home state.

Hannah Niemeier

A Field Trip Near the Twin Cities Brings Understanding of Dakota History

Victoria Cooney

From Facts to Frankenstein: Looking to the Humanities to Support Innovation

Michael Adams

Tools of the Bookbinding Trade Can Be Found in Pennsylvania

Steve Moyer

Stuart Rockoff of Mississippi

In Mississippi, the humanities council takes on tough conversations about history

Sherry Lucas

Building a Bridge Without a Plan

An endangered language and ancient lore allow Quechua communities to cross the Apurímac River in Peru.

Erica Machulak

Editor’s Note

David Skinner