September/October 2009
In This Issue September/October 2009
Volume 30, Issue 5
Samuel Johnson© David Levine
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Features
Taming the Savage City
One hundred years later, Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago still inspires.
By Carl Smith
Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas
Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.
By James Williford
The Cold War’s Organization Man
How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate U.S. foreign policy.
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Departments
Curio
Night Physik
From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Revolt of the Masses
From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.
Mission to Moscow
From Idaho Humanities, in which this account by Irish poet and Fulbright Scholar Kevin Kiely appeared at the request of the council as his two-year stint teaching and researching in Idaho
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
Stan Hywet (stone quarry in Old English) was built between 1912 and 1915 near Akron, OH, by cofounder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company F. A. Seiberling.
By Steve MoyerGerman American Heritage Center
The zither, commonly found in southern Germany and other parts of alpine Europe, produces the “oompahs” so typical of German folk music.
By Steve MoyerBisbee Mining & Historical Museum
A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a ca
By Steve MoyerConversation
The Public Historian
How Jill Lepore went from Harvard office temp to Harvard professor.
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Kathleen Fitzpatrick
On scholarly communities in the digital age.
By Meredith Hindley (edited by)In Focus
Alaska’s Gregory W. Kimura
Gregory W. Kimura bridges urban and rural worldviews with humanities programming.
By David HolthouseEdNote
Editor's Note, September/October 2009
“Only connect,” E. M. Forster wrote. But if you are a humanist looking to transmit a message from the far corners of research to a truly public audience, doing so can seem impossible.
By David Skinner
