November/December 2007
In This Issue November/December 2007
Miami Swank—and Its Opposite
A new exhibition captures the dueling personalities of Miami Modern.
By Thomas Hine
Volume 28, Issue 6
Alix of Miami gave the city a signature style in the 1950s.
Johnson / Florida State Archives / Florida Memory Project
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Features
American Arriviste
The eighteenth-century traveler, writer, and social climber John Ledyard joins Thomas Jefferson and a famed circle of expatriates in Paris.
By Edward G. GrayLost Children: Riders on the Orphan Train
In the 1850's, the Children's Aid Society began sending thousands of orphans by train to Western towns for adoption.
By Dan ScheuermanShakespearetown
Ralph Alan Cohen and the American Shakespeare Center want to turn the sweet little town of Staunton, Virginia, into the world capital of Shakespearean theater.
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Departments
Curio
Mickey Ramps It Up
—From “Building America” on the National Building Museum’s Web site: “The Car and Its Impact on the Built Environment: Disney Resort Guest Parking Garage, Anaheim,
Freedom Through Conversation
—From “Colonial Origins and Growth: The Church of England Adapts to North America, 1607-1760” by Edward L. Bond.
The City that Never Slept
—From “Mapping Time” by Peter Baldwin. Published in Common-Place, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005). Printed by permission.
Faith and Fiction
—Marilynne Robinson, delivering the 2007 McBride Lecture at Oklahoma Christian University, with support from the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
Conversation
Looking for Lincoln
Journalist Andrew Ferguson and NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discuss America's love-hate relationship with our sixteenth president.
In Focus
Michael Gillette
Michael Gillette works to make Humanities Texas as noticeable as the handsome mansion it is restoring and using as a new headquarters.
By Rebecca OnionEdNote
Editor's Note, November/December 2007
A magazine should suggest to the reader the existence of a world outside one's door that is larger and more interesting than he or she would have imagined had they not read the magazine.
By David Skinner
