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                      Humanities:                                                                        The Magazine of the                                                        National Endowment for the Humanities

  Cover of November/December 2007 Humanities
Editor's Note

Contents

Miami Swank
A new exhibition captures the dueling personalities of Miami Modern.
By Thomas Hine

Looking For Lincoln
Journalist Andrew Ferguson and NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discuss America's love-hate relationship with our sixteenth president.

American Arriviste
The eighteenth-century traveler, writer, and social climber John Ledyard joins Thomas Jefferson and a famed circle of expatriates in Paris.
By Edward G. Gray

Shakespearetown
Ralph Alan Cohen and the American Shakespeare Center want to turn the sweet little town of Staunton, Virginia, into the world capital of Shakespearean theater.
By David Skinner

Teaching Rembrandt
Why introduce children to masterpieces?
By Joseph Matthew Piro

Curio
Curio: Mickey ramps it up; Freedom through conversion; The city that never slept; Faith and fiction.

Around the Nation
Lost Children
In the 1850s, the Children’s Aid Society began sending thousands of orphans by train to Western towns for adoption.
By Daniel Scheuerman

In Focus
Michael Gillette works to raise the profile of Humanities Texas.
By Rebecca Onion

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