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HUMANITIES

May/June 2010: Volume 31, Number 3 | Subscribe

Contents

The China Scholar

Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Jim Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.


The Making of Jonathan Spence   

From Winchester College to The Search for Modern China.
By Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.


Talking to Saipan   

American lit in a Pacific outpost.
By P. F. Kluge


Philosophy on the Radio  

A call-in show in North Dakota broadcasts under the motto that philosophy is for everyone.
By Paulette Tobin


Burying Molière (And reburying him) 

How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
By Steve Moyer

Curio

Survival of the Luckless

Tenor of the Times

Cover of May/June 2010 Humanities

photo: Nancy Crampton

Statements

Alabama marks fifty years of To Kill a Mockingbird.

A Pennsylvania scholar brings new interest to the composer known as the Black Mozart.

South Dakota remembers the Great War in a collection of one family’s letters.

Texas views the life of Anne Frank through her father’s photos.

In Focus  

Through Georgia’s online encyclopedia, Jamil Zainaldin helps disseminate the state’s historical gems. 
By Mary J. Loftus

Archive  

Past issues of HUMANITIES are archived online.

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