September/October 2010
In This Issue September/October 2010
Volume 31, Issue 5
Dona Bagley
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Features
Livingstone in a New Light
Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.
By Anna Maria Gillis
“My Sejanus”
Rome's ruthless upstart was really a savvy insider, until fortune turned her back on him.
By Edward Champlin
The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
By Ilan Stavans
Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.
By Craig Lambert
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Departments
Statements
Curio
Name-Dropping In Rhode Island
Familiarly known as the “Ocean State,” Rhode Island’s full official name includes “and Providence Plantations,” words the state legislature has resolved to drop.
By Steve MoyerConfederate Cattle Call
There is pleasure to be had in looking to the past for examples of the familiar or near familiar. But one can also look to it for a good blast of the freaky, the strange, and the unrecognizable.
By David SkinnerWagner Free Institute of Science
The Exhibition Hall at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, with its original systematic scheme of cherry-wood cabinets dating from the 1880s, provides a rare view of a Victorian scie
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Laura Claridge
On the private life of Emily Post.
By Meredith Hindley (Edited by)In Focus
West Virginia's Ken Sullivan
Ken Sullivan stresses the role of the Civil War in the formation of his state.
By James E. CastoEdNote
Editor's Note, September/October 2010
The great fear of those in the business of promoting the humanities is that people will realize we have nothing new to say.
By David Skinner
