Photo caption Illustrator Sara Tyson depicts Eudora Welty as watchful, listening, and ever curious. See Danny Heitman's consideration of the great Southern writer in this issue. Sara Tyson March/April 2014 Volume 35, Issue 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The First Americans What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. Steve Moyer The Otherworldly Malamud The master of the short story infused his work with myth and magic, but not fairytale endings. Mark Athitakis The American Language A Historical Database of English in the U.S. Ammon Shea Homegrown History A retired UPS man takes on a county's archives. Steven Hill Picture the South A traveling exhibition showcases the diversity of Georgia. Mary J. Loftus Quiltmaking Engineer An engineer innovates a traditional art. David Kubicek Radio Voices Iowa reporters bring news of the front to audiences at home during World War II. Victoria Cooney Room for Interpretation First Anti-Crown Sentiments in America Traced to Virginia Parlor Steve Moyer "Hotter than the Bloomin' Hobs of Hell" Historically, iron foundries could fire the imagination or soothe the visual palate. Steve Moyer Impertinent Questions with Annegret Fauser How music was used and appreciated during World War II. Meredith Hindley Editor's Note David Skinner
The First Americans What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. Steve Moyer
The Otherworldly Malamud The master of the short story infused his work with myth and magic, but not fairytale endings. Mark Athitakis
Radio Voices Iowa reporters bring news of the front to audiences at home during World War II. Victoria Cooney
"Hotter than the Bloomin' Hobs of Hell" Historically, iron foundries could fire the imagination or soothe the visual palate. Steve Moyer
Impertinent Questions with Annegret Fauser How music was used and appreciated during World War II. Meredith Hindley