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An interview by Lynne V. Cheney

Lynne V. Cheney was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1992.

Magazine Article

Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb

First published in the May/June 1991 issue of Humanities magazine.

An interview by Lynne V. Cheney

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