March/April 2011
In This Issue March/April 2011
Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography
One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.
By Jerome Loving
Volume 32, Issue 2
Mark Twain on the cover of March/April 2011 issue.Courtesy of the Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Features
History's Exemplars
Richard Brookhiser shows the relevance of Alexander Hamilton to our modern lives.
By Andrew Ferguson
Ten Extraordinary Lives
This year's class of National Humanities Medalists.
John Muir, Nature's Witness
The founder of the Sierra Club worshiped the outdoor world.
By Anna Maria Gillis
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Departments
Statements
The Great Escape
New Hampshire remembers the authors of Curious George and their escape from Paris.
By Sarah Stewart TaylorTen Years of Prime Time
Louisiana marks ten successful years of a literacy program.
By David SkinnerCurio
Stained-Glass Heaven
The Bosco-Milligan Foundation / Architectural Heritage Center in Portland has preserved hundreds of stained-glass windows from the mid to late nineteenth century, including work from the celebrated Po
By Steve MoyerDante: Auctor, Autore
The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.
By Steve Moyer"Saving Fats"
Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou
By Steve MoyerTelecommunications Triumphs
Staying up all night working on his code and such for the glory of France, Napoleon still had time for other long-lasting achievements—namely, his optical telegraph.
By Steve MoyerThat's Amore
Three women in novelist William Faulkner’s life affected his storytelling profoundly through their own literary and artistic abilities. Additionally, one of the three transformed his notions of race.
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with David Cartwright
Was Arthur Schopenhauer a dog person?.
By David Skinner (Edited by)In Focus
Kentucky’s Virginia Carter
Virginia Carter promotes her state's history with Chautauqua.
By Sarah C. VosEdNote
Editor's Note, March/April 2011
In this issue, we honor the 2010 Humanities Medalists.
By David Skinner
