Photo caption Fresh out of college, Ron Stanford and his wife, Fay, moved to southern Louisiana to document the Cajun music scene in the 1970s. Recently, he rediscovered his own images of this idyllic time and place. —Photo by Ron Stanford Spring 2020 Volume 41, Issue 2 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Notes from the Big Dance In the early seventies, an intrepid couple of young scholars captured the vibrant spirit of Cajun Country Photos and main text by Ron Stanford. Foreword by William R. Ferris Ron Stanford The Music Pa Ingalls Played And other projects of MUSA Dale Cockrell Portrait of the Picture-Taker Dorothea Lange An exhibit in Oklahoma Andy Rieger Stories from the Opioid Crisis Peter Tonguette The Women Pioneers of Unladylike2020 Amy Lifson Culture and Prosperity: A Visit with Colombian President Duque Humanities Staff Preservation Is Goal of D.C.’s Joy Austin Julia Wicks Grateful Americans: An Interview with David Bruce Smith Humanities Staff What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach? Scholars look to recover the original soundscape of the composer’s work Paula Wasley The Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in Congress Kimberly A. Hamlin A Monument to the Mother Tongue Englishman Samuel Johnson’s work helped define the English language for readers on both sides of the Atlantic Danny Heitman Ex Libris 2020 Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Staff Reading Classics in Difficult Times Danny Heitman
Notes from the Big Dance In the early seventies, an intrepid couple of young scholars captured the vibrant spirit of Cajun Country Photos and main text by Ron Stanford. Foreword by William R. Ferris Ron Stanford
What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach? Scholars look to recover the original soundscape of the composer’s work Paula Wasley
The Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in Congress Kimberly A. Hamlin
A Monument to the Mother Tongue Englishman Samuel Johnson’s work helped define the English language for readers on both sides of the Atlantic Danny Heitman
Ex Libris 2020 Books recently published with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Staff