January/February 2012
In This Issue January/February 2012
Volume 33, Issue 1
Portrait of Philip Larkin
© 2011 Gary Kelley
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Features
The Right to Love
The freedom to marry across racial lines was tested by a shy Virginia couple, who were very much in love.
By Donna M. Lucey
Unhappy Camper
The hijacking of Vonnegut's early education embarrassed him not just at the time but down the road, when his career would bring him into contact with writers more well-read than he was.
By David Kipen
Humanities on the Brain
New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.
By James Williford
Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
By Katy Werlin
Żeromski the Magnificent!
The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing
By Steve Moyer
Public Parking
Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.
By Anna Maria Gillis
Deaf Meets Wonderstruck
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
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Departments
Statements
Big Sky Oasis
Montana's hot springs were pockets of peace and luxury on the frontier.
By Elizabeth MartinIncognito in the Infantry
The story of Cathay Williams, the only known female Buffalo Soldier.
By Anna Maria GillisCurio
Crowning Achievement
Fifteenth-century French painter Jean Fouquet was a curious artist—
By Steve MoyerLorca, American Style
In spite of generations of poets and translators' efforts to categorize Federico García Lorca, his talent remains untamed.
By Steve MoyerRufus Refused Credit
Modest Medieval scholar's commentaries on Aristotle come to light after five hundred years
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Paul D. Halliday
On the origins of habeas corpus.
In Focus
Alabama's Bob Stewart
Alabama's Bob Stewart Builds and rebuilds on the humanities.
By Larry Bleiberg
