From the National Humanities Center

• The Director's Desk

• Divine Providence and Dr. Parkman's Jawbone:
  The Cultural Construction of Murder as Mystery
  by Karen Halttunen

• The Heroic Couplet: Its Rhyme and Reason
  by J. Paul Hunter

• Prospects for a Democratic Society
  by Francis Oakley

• How Do We Retain Our Teachers?
  by Richard Schramm

• A New Volume of Essays:
  Changes in the Humanities since World War II
  by Alvin Kernan

Ideas is published twice a year. Editor: Jean Anne Leuchtenburg.
Copyright © 1996 by the National Humanities Center.
Comments to: lmorgan@ga.unc.edu
Revised: September 1996
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