Summer 2021

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Some are reading and some are swimming in the summer issue of Humanities.

—Private Collection © T. S. Harris / Bridgeman Images

Summer 2021

Volume 42, Issue 3

HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

How the Renaissance ideal became a pointless hustle

How a religious practice came to fascinate neuroscientists and gave birth to the mindfulness movement

An interview with Amy Stanley

John Cheever was the bard of the backyard

Six days a week for almost three decades, the pioneering first lady explored what it’s like to be an American

An excerpt from All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Georgia

Nevada

Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Art from a veterans’ humanities course helps commemorate 9/11