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cover of Collier's, Sherlock Holmes

Long Live Sherlock Holmes

The genius detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has inspired a mountain of imitations.

By Tom Keogh

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1
Cartoon, hunters shooting ducks

From Cartoons to Conservation

Jay "Ding" Darling was the best friend a duck ever had.

By Laura Wolff Scanlan

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1
Sea-otter hunt, Alaska, 1910

A Company Town

Alaska's sea-otter hunting left records of village life.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1
Illustration

The Wreck of the Reformation

Florida's coast was a deadly place for seventeenth-century castaways.

By Amy Turner Bushnell

humanities, January/February, 2013, Volume 34, Issue 1
Drawing of Jennison's Jayhawkers

Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers

Kansans relive the guerrilla raids of the Border Wars.

By Steven Hill

humanities, November/December, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 6
Robert Smalls

A Voyage to Freedom

Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina.

By Meredith Good

humanities, November/December, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 6
James Meredith

The Evolution of Ole Miss

Fifty years ago, James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, November/December, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 6
USS Constitution

Fractures of 1812

Massachusetts nearly secedes during the War of 1812.

By Kevin Mahnken

humanities, November/December, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 6
Constructing cables on the Golden Gate Bridge

Steel into Gold

A steel town in New Jersey made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.

By Edward Tenner

humanities, September/October, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 5
The Porch at Hearthside

Picture Perfect

A cache of photographs reveals the history of a historic Rhode Island house.

By Nina Markov

humanities, September/October, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 5