Spring 2025 | National Endowment for the Humanities

Cover Image -- Noyes

Photo caption

Eliot Noyes, pictured here on the television show Omnibus, brought a sculptural grace to his work.

—Courtesy the Eliot Noyes family

Spring 2025

Volume 46, Issue 2

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The Complicated Legacy of Eliot Noyes

A new film revisits the pioneering IBM designer.

Menachem Wecker

The Columbian Orator Taught Nineteenth-Century Americans How to Speak

Among its many fans were Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Judith Jones, An Editor with Taste

At Knopf, she brought out Julia Child and a host of other culinary greats

Marching Bands, Secret Societies, and Mechanical Goats

Illinois

Laura Wolff Scanlan

Two Minutes in Texas

Texas

Jennifer Rupp of Michigan

Editor’s Note