November/December 2010
In This Issue November/December 2010
Volume 31, Issue 6
Black Swan Record label, 1921Mindspring Press
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Features
Why Paris?
Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.
By James Panero
The Man Who Came in Second
In 1860, John C. Breckinridge ran for president against Lincoln, and broke the Democrats in two.
By Meredith Hindley
World Beaters
In the early days of basketball, the girls from Fort Shaw Indian School took on all comers.
By Delia Cabe
Worshipped, Plundered, and Digitized
It’s easy enough to wander through the Asian art wing of a large museum and skim over the fine print.
By Lauren Viera
The First Dissenters
George Mason swore he would rather "chop off his right hand" than sign the Constitution.
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Departments
Statements
The Gorey Details
Goreyphiles flock to Hawai'i for an exhibit of his dark-humored work.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanComics and the Classical Tradition
Comics are taken seriously in Washington state.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanCurio
Mon Dieu!
“The issue of keeping the French language alive in Louisiana,” says Dana Kress, a professor at Centenary College in Shreveport, “is always accompanied with great wailing, much pulling of hair, and fev
By Steve MoyerFirst, Count to Ten...In Pescadora
Archaeologists from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum working in Peru have unearthed a piece of paper used in the early seventeenth century by a Spanish priest to conduct an interview and record num
By Steve MoyerPoetry Speaks
“Voice registers the weird sexiness of reading poetry, the illusion it enables of a private tryst between author and reader.” So says Lesley Wheeler, an English professor at Washington and Lee Univers
By Steve MoyerUniversity of Denver Archaeological Collections
Fashioned from yucca fibers, the sandal pictured here was probably worn over five thousand years ago and is one of the oldest artifacts found at Franktown Cave in southern Colorado.
By Steve MoyerPennsylvania Trolley Museum
Low platforms helped passengers in getting on and off streetcars and resulted in decreased running times and fewer accidents.
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
In Focus
Ohio’s Gale Peterson
Gale Peterson’s plan to teach high school history had one fatal flaw. Not his B.S. in History and Government from Iowa State University.
By Bill EichenbergerEdNote
Editor's Note, November/December 2010
Here’s a scary thought on the eve of the Civil War sesquicentennial: In the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln was utterly beatable.
By David Skinner
