July/August 2008
In This Issue July/August 2008
Now You See Them
A confluence of cultures formed the ancient treasures of Afghanistan, now seen for the first time in the United States.
By Mary Kay Zuravleff
Volume 29, Issue 4
Medallion depicting Eros and Psyche, first to second centuries C.E.
National Museum of Afghanistan © Thierry Olivier/Musée Guimet
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Features
How to Get a Grant from NEH
Insider advice on the ins and outs of grant writing.
By Meredith Hindley
The Critical Moment
Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg set the standards for art in the 1950s.
By James PaneroFound in Translation
About soldiers-turned-defendants, a novelist-turned-interpreter, and French-turned-English.
By Steve MoyerSunday Filmmakers
Shooting on weekends, a team of young, Jewish filmmaker-wannabes in 1920s Berlin made a classic film—and launched several major Hollywood careers.
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Departments
Curio
A Ladies' Rumble
Mad hatter tears worshipper's chapeau in two during Sunday service.
Honorable Hotbloods
“A Killing Gentleman” by James M. Prichard delineates the carefully prescribed protocol of dueling in the April issue of Kentucky Humanities.
By James M. PrichardSeeds of Democracy
Although famous as a period when large private estates and fine suburbs were built and landscaped, the early twentieth century was equally a time when little gardens attracted great loyalties, and
By Sandy IsenstadtConversation
History Unfiltered
Entrepreneur and onetime gubernatorial candidate Lewis Lehrman talks to NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about Abraham Lincoln’s pivotal speech in 1854.
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with James I. Porter
James I. Porter has devoted his career to studying classics. His books explore the birth of tragedy, the role of aesthetics in Greek culture, and Greek and Roman classical traditions. We asked Porter to opine on Homer and the mortals and gods who fill his tales.
In Focus
Ted Lord
Ted Lord brings poetry and tech savvy to the humanities in Washington.
By Sam Howe Verhovek
