January/February 2013
In This Issue January/February 2013
Faces of the Renaissance
A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?
By Mary Kay Zuravleff
Volume 34, Issue 1
Alessandro de' Medici by Agnolo Bronzino, 1560.
Scala / Art Resource, NY
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Features
The Mysterious Miss Austen
Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.
By Meredith Hindley
The Agitator
William Lloyd Garrison burned the Constitution as he roared against the injustice of slavery.
By James Williford
Shakespeare in Six Parts
Actors and Scholars explore the hidden wonders of more than a half dozen plays.
By David Kipen
Looking for Truth in Utah
How one university course has affected a generation of mostly Mormon students.
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Departments
Statements
Long Live Sherlock Holmes
The genius detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has inspired a mountain of imitations.
By Tom KeoghFrom Cartoons to Conservation
Jay "Ding" Darling was the best friend a duck ever had.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanThe Wreck of the Reformation
Florida's coast was a deadly place for seventeenth-century castaways.
By Amy Turner BushnellCurio
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Susan Heuck Allen
Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece.
By Edited by Meredith HindleyEdNote
Editor's Note
Recently, a young African-American reader told me she did not see herself in the covers of HUMANITIES.
By David Skinner
