Photo caption Sammy Davis Jr at the Copacabana Club in 1961. —Photo by Steve Schapiro/Getty Images Spring 2019 Volume 40, Issue 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The Confessions of Gouverneur Morris An interview with Melanie Randolph Miller Meredith Hindley When Iowa Girls’ Basketball Ruled the Courts Amy Lifson Newsreel or Not Real Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. | Posted February 22, 2019 Leah Weinryb Grohsgal Alabama Celebrates Its Bicentennial Haley Herfurth African Blacksmiths Forge Iron into Works of Art Amy Lifson John Dewey: Portrait of a Progressive Thinker His ideas altered the education of children worldwide Peter Gibbon Debra Hess Norris Trains People Who Are Saving Our Culture One Artifact at a Time Master Conservator Jordan Howell Guam’s Kimberlee Kihleng Helps Elevate the Diverse Voices of the Island’s Community Wayne Chargualaf Not Your Typical Colonial Dames Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America Sarah M. S. Pearsall The Many Lives of Sammy Davis Jr. A new documentary shines a light on the irrepressible singer, dancer, comedian, actor, and civil rights activist. | Posted February 26, 2019 Laurence Maslon When Jazz Moved to Chicago King Oliver and the Great Migration | Posted April 8, 2019 Peter Gerler The Carefully Constructed Stardom of Walt Whitman The poet in his final years | Posted April 17, 2019 Danny Heitman Editor’s Note David Skinner Ex Libris Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities / Posted June 14, 2019 Russ Wyland Writing Gay History How the story itself came out. Jim Downs
Newsreel or Not Real Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. | Posted February 22, 2019 Leah Weinryb Grohsgal
John Dewey: Portrait of a Progressive Thinker His ideas altered the education of children worldwide Peter Gibbon
Debra Hess Norris Trains People Who Are Saving Our Culture One Artifact at a Time Master Conservator Jordan Howell
Not Your Typical Colonial Dames Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America Sarah M. S. Pearsall
The Many Lives of Sammy Davis Jr. A new documentary shines a light on the irrepressible singer, dancer, comedian, actor, and civil rights activist. | Posted February 26, 2019 Laurence Maslon
The Carefully Constructed Stardom of Walt Whitman The poet in his final years | Posted April 17, 2019 Danny Heitman
Ex Libris Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities / Posted June 14, 2019 Russ Wyland