The Fall 2019 issue of Humanities

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Fr. Columba on the bluff
Fall 2019 cover

Cover Story: NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede interviews 2019 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities Father Columba Stewart, executive director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Appreciation: Patrick Geary writes about Fr. Columba, his scholarship, and being a monk in a secular age.

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Suffragists in "Winning the Vote"

From our Summer issue: Lisa Tetrault describes how a divided movement pursued equality at the ballot box. Martha S. Jones writes about Hallie Quinn Brown and other extraordinary African-American suffragists.

National Association of Colored Women's Clubs

Desert Masterpiece: Mark Athitakis writes about the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright at whose Taliesin West students had to build their own shelters, rise early in the morning for choir practice, and help stage elaborate musical productions.

Taliesin West

Photos of Fr. Columba on a bluff behind the Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and inside the Great Hall at Saint's John's University for the cover of Humanities magazine by Vincent Ricardel; 1915 photo of suffragists bearing the purple, gold, and white colors of their movement (Library of Congress); black women's clubs in 1896 joined forces to become the National Association of Colored Women (National Women's History Museum); a night view of Taliesin West's prow and pool (photo by Andrew Pielage © Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation).


Your friendly local humanist,
DAVID SKINNER