Fall 2022 | National Endowment for the Humanities

cover of Humanities magazine with portrait of Andrew Delbanco

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Andrew Delbanco is delivering the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

—Billy Delfs for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Fall 2022

Volume 43, Issue 4

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Editor’s Note

When an Ark Was Built in Newark

Artist Kea Tawana was one of a kind

Artists Reinterpret the Great Migration

Mississippi / Maryland

The Picasso Exhibition That Forever Changed Art in America

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Did More Than Write One Classic Short Story

Beyond “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Building a Literary Trail in Brattleboro, Vermont

A small town seen through the history of its writers

Sarah Stewart Taylor

Long Before SpaceX, Pan Am Was Booking Flights to the Moon

Aiko Yamashiro of the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities

Invisible Man at Seventy

Ralph Ellison’s seminal novel continues to challenge us.

Eugene Holley Jr.

Finding a Pharaoh

Excavating an Egyptian masterpiece in the pyramids

Peter Der Manuelian

The Rise of Rapture Horror Culture

How the Book of Revelation continues to fascinate us.

Before the Brontës, There Were the Porters

Sister novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter get their due

Nobody’s Woman

Who was La Malinche?

Angelica Aboulhosn