September/October 2007
In This Issue September/October 2007
Art and the American Story
NEH puts American materpieces in schools across the country.
By Maggie Riechers
Volume 28, Issue 5
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931
Grant Wood / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund
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Features
The Ballad of Thomas Hart Benton
The prolific, opinionated artist behind The Sources of Country Music.
By Justin WolffIn Defense of Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain.
By Wayne FranklinA Summer Scene
While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans
By Wayne FranklinWyeth's Noble Savage
An excerpt from Picturing America describes how an artist interpreted Cooper's prose.
“High Thinking and Low Living”
How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanThe Passing City
Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York.
By Susan SaccocciaPlanned Paradise: Making the Florida Dream
A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state.
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Departments
Conversation
The Collector
William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.
In Focus
EdNote
Editor's Note, September/October 2007
This issue of Humanities magazine has two themes. Or perhaps one.
By David Skinner
