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Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999

Clarence Darrow, The Scopes Trial by Michael Lienesch The Scopes Trial
by Michael Lienesch

To study the Scopes trial is to be aware from the beginning that in the political world things are not always as they seem.



Smokechasing
by Stephen J. Pyne

A crew that can't track down its smoke sinks into ridicule and even self-disdain. It took me years to appreciate that the same was true for scholarship.		 Smokechasing by Stephen Pyne



Landscapes of the Heart by Jacquelyn D. Hall Landscapes of the Heart
by Jacquelyn D. Hall

If reading takes us "far away," . . . it also returns us to important connections.



May Sinclair and the First
World War
by Suzanne Raitt

For Sinclair, as for her country, the definition of the object "war" entailed the redefinition of the category "woman."		 May Sinclair and the First World War by Suzanne Raitt



The Director's Desk by W. Robert Connor The Director's Desk

Some people, I know, think the humanities should be all one thing or the other. Any humanities center that’s worth its salt ought to be tugged in both directions . . .


  

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