July/August 2010
In This Issue July/August 2010
The Fork And The Shrink
Kierkegaard was a psychologist of sorts, but unlike Freud he believed in God.
By Gordon Marino
Volume 31, Issue 4
Freud vs. KierkegaardJohn Cuneo
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Features
Brother from the Richmond Planet
Crusading Journalist John Mitchell Jr. took on the lynchers.
By Donna M. Lucey
Emily Dickinson, Gardener
In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.
By Tom ChristopherOur Founding Novelist
Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.
By Anne Trubek
The Gorgeous Unstoppable Tennessee Williams
And how he changed our sense of beauty.
By John Patrick ShanleyThe War 150 Years Later
As the sesquicentennial nears, a selection of past, present, and future humanities projects.
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Departments
Statements
Curio
Sprechen Sie Texan?
It would be hard to imagine anyone more learned about the German spoken today in central Texas than Hans Boas.
By Steve MoyerHey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?
First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.
By Steve MoyerOf Stevedores and Book Slingers
Mention the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and what comes to mind are workers heaving bales along a waterfront, operating straddle carriers shipside, or driving winches above break bulk c
By Steve MoyerNational Navy UDT-SEAL Museum
Perched in its launch aft of the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama, the small, orange vessel in which Captain Richard Phillips spent five tense days last year as the hostage of Somali pirates, loo
By James WillifordMexic-Arte Museum
Cortez’s conquest of the Aztecs, the Seven Deadly Sins, and Mexican Independence are among the many themes of the masked dances of the Nahua Indians of central Mexico.
By James WillifordImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Duane W. Roller
On the elusive Cleopatra.
By Meredith Hindley (Edited by)In Focus
Kansas's Julie Mulvihill
Kansas's Julie Mulvihill travels the state stumping for the humanities.
By Steven HillEdNote
Editor's Note, July/August 2010
The natural and the supernatural, the mental and the moral, verse and adversity all make an appearance in this issue of HUMANITIES.
By David Skinner
