May/June 2011
In This Issue May/June 2011
An Appreciation: A Historian's Historian
A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust.
By David W. Blight
Volume 32, Issue 3
Drew Gilpin Faust, 2011 Jefferson Lecturer© Mark Morelli
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Features
California's Cold War Museum
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.
By David C. Engerman
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Departments
Statements
Milton and the Cultures of Print
New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library.
By Thomas FultonCurio
City Desk
Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Ven
By Steve MoyerThem Is Fightin' Words
An attempt at summing up NEH-funded Daniel Justin Herman’s intriguing Hell on the Range (Yale University Press, 2010) could wind up sounding like an allegory: Into Pleasant Valley there once
By Steve MoyerHistory of Science at the Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium’s history of science collection is one of the world’s most important, and includes the astrolabe pictured here.
By Steve MoyerIntellectual Retreat
Josef Albers (pictured) was one of the innovative teachers at short-lived Black Mountain College in Asheville, NC.
By Steve MoyerConversation
Personal History
NEH Chairman Jim Leach talks with Drew Gilpin Faust, daughter of the South, president of Harvard, and this year's Jefferson Lecturer.
Impertinent Questions
EdNote
Editor's Note, May/June 2011
How is it that our culture has studied and written and published large libraries’ worth of new books on the Civil War, and yet reading Drew Gilpin Faust, this year’s Jefferson Lecturer, is like discov
By David Skinner
