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                      Humanities:                                                                        The Magazine of the                                                        National Endowment for the Humanities
  Cover of March/April 2010 Humanities
—Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975),The Yankee Driver, 1923, oil on canvas, 26 x 23 3/4 in.
—The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Art © T. H. Benton and R. P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / UMB Bank Trustee / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Contents
Portrait of the Artist Before and After
Thomas Hart Benton was famous when he wrote his autobiography, forgotten when he updated it.
By Daniel Grant
American Zenophilia
Our fascination with Buddha goes well beyond power drinks and movie stars.
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Whaling the Old Way Life on a nineteenth-century whaler was thrilling, tedious, and often disgusting.
By James Williford
Sweet Auburn
Cambridge’s pastoral gateway to paradise set the trend for modern cemeteries.
By Sarah Stewart Taylor
Eight Who Make a Difference
The 2009 National Humanities Medalists.
Sailor of Fortune
Michael of Rhodes was not your typical fifteenth-century Venetian, and he left his manuscript as proof.
By Anna Maria Gillis
In Focus
Wisconsin’s Dena Wortzel finds common ground between rural and urban communities.
Statements
Oklahoma Remembers the Career of Costumier Edith Head.
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