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A traveling exhibition of Mary Cassatt’s work delves into the public and private lives of women. Read “The Indelible Charm of Mary Cassatt” in this issue.

—Mary Cassatt, In the Omnibus, 1890–91, Cleveland Museum of Art

Fall 2024

Volume 45, Issue 4

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Classics

How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines"

Martha S. Jones

A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known.

The pirate next door.

Mark G. Hanna

Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs

What Unicode will make possible

Erica Machulak

Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn’t Happen.

The origins of the Library of America were a messy business.

David Skinner

Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated

Steven Nadler

How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”

The rise and fall of Perry Miller

Abram Van Engen

The Messy Genius of W. H. Auden

A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order.

Danny Heitman

World War I Changed America and Transformed Its Role in International Relations

So why don't we pay more attention to it?

Meredith Hindley

A major exhibition takes us inside the private, busy lives of women

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