Spring 2021 Volume 42, Issue 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Oz: America’s Fairy Tale Laura Wolff Scanlan Ken Burns Looks Back at Baseball Peter Tonguette William Bartram’s Man-Eating Monster An early American naturalist’s terrifying account continues to color how the public views an iconic reptile Mark V. Barrow Jr. The Long Journey Home Wyoming Tamara Linse How Speech Began Research into the development of human language Matt Phillips A Slave Memoir Becomes an Opera South Carolina Rosalind Early Noah Webster, Chronicler of Disease As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as a historian, he searched for the causes of epidemics David Skinner Louisiana’s Miranda Restovic Morgan Randall Revolutionary Rodeo Agnes de Mille created a ballet inspired by the American West. Sharon Skeel Dr. Kilmer’s Curious Cure-All Amy Lifson Lovers and Soldiers The Sacred Band of Thebes James Flynn
William Bartram’s Man-Eating Monster An early American naturalist’s terrifying account continues to color how the public views an iconic reptile Mark V. Barrow Jr.
Noah Webster, Chronicler of Disease As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as a historian, he searched for the causes of epidemics David Skinner