Photo caption Portrait of Johnny Cash taken by Joel Baldwin in 1968 for Look magazine. Read more on Johnny Cash and his humble Arkansas roots in this issue. —Joel Baldwin, Look Collection, Library of Congress Summer 2023 Volume 44, Issue 3 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Hell’s Searing Gaze A traveling exhibition explores the underworld Angelica Aboulhosn Students Record the Lives of Veterans West Virginia Eric Waggoner Making Public Art Kansas Tim O’Bryhim Nashid Madyun of Florida Humanities Dalia Colón Hayden Carruth’s North Winter Helped Transform American Poetry’s Landscape Shaun T. Griffin Where Johnny Cash Came From The Man in Black grew up in Dyess, Arkansas, in a community of poor farmers working government land. William R. Ferris Underwater at the Aquacade Hannah Stamler Andy Warhol’s New York The birth of Pop Art in the city that never sleeps Kembrew McLeod Ex Libris 2023 Books published recently with NEH support NEH Staff The Art of the Adirondacks A new exhibition opens in upstate New York Norah Machia
Where Johnny Cash Came From The Man in Black grew up in Dyess, Arkansas, in a community of poor farmers working government land. William R. Ferris