Cecil J. Williams, Ursula Le Guin, and More

National Endowment for the Humanities sent this bulletin at 02/14/2019 10:50 AM EST

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.
humanities magazine newsletter
Cecil Williams rectangular crop 2
Ursula Le Guin cover

In this issue, NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede pays tribute to Cecil J. Williams, the great civil rights photographer whose 1994 book, Freedom & Justice, Peede edited and helped publish. 

Cover story: Biographer Julie Phillips explores the imagined places of Ursula Le Guin’s  fiction.

SUBSCRIBE to Humanities magazine
Vast Early America

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Historian Karin Wulf scans the pre-1776 map of North America and sees a brawling mix of nations. “Vast Early America” is her simple phrase for this complex era. 
Orwell
Veterans Dialogues on the Experience of War

George Orwell, famous for his gritty urban visions of a totalitarian future, liked nothing more than a few weeks in the country. Danny Heitman considers Orwell’s unsung record as a nature writer.

What can hardened war veterans learn in a humanities class? Norah Machia spent many hours hanging around Jefferson Community College in Watertown, New York, hoping to find out. The answer, it turns out, is a lot.

Your friendly local humanist,
DAVID SKINNER