Fall 2019 | National Endowment for the Humanities

2019 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities Father Columba Stewart standing in the Great Hall at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

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2019 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities Father Columba Stewart standing in the Great Hall at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

--Cover photo by Vincent Ricardel

Fall 2019

Volume 40, Issue 4

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Also in this issue

With Shelly Hendrick Kasprzycki

Radio Broadcasts Local Stories

Documents of Yiddish Life

Herculaneum Scrolls

Meredith Hindley

Dead Sea Scrolls

Michael F. Bishop

Early Buddhist Manuscripts

Jennifer Howard

Coptic Language Manuscripts

First Draft of the King James Bible

An interview with Jeffrey Alan Miller

Zaydi Manuscript Tradition

Finding the Words

New technology and new thinking are helping Native American communities revitalize their languages

Editor’s Note

Wendell Berry in the Library of America

The great writer from Kentucky (and former Jefferson Lecturer) is published in the Library of America

I, Humanist

Returning to the roots of the liberal arts.

Ka‘iulani Haunts Empire in Waikīkī

Stephanie Nohelani Teves

Teresa Lozano Long

2019 National Humanities Medalist

James Patterson

2019 National Humanities Medalist

Patrick O’Connell

2019 National Humanities Medalist

The Claremont Institute

2019 National Humanities Medalist

“Ornament of the World” and the Jews of Spain

Revisiting Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon

Until recently, the legendary Cold War novel was known only through its English translation

Michael Scammell

Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb

First published in the May/June 1991 issue of Humanities magazine.

An interview by Lynne V. Cheney