by Susan Stinson | Apr 5, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The eighteenth century preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards wrote on any paper he could find. In Northampton and later in Stockbridge, he made extensive notes on a version of the Bible with large, lined margins, writing alongside what was, for him, the direct word...
by Julia Bond Ellingboe | Apr 10, 2012 | The Public Humanist
I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Likewise, my parents, their parents, and their parents’ parents were all born in the Mid-south region of the US (western Tennessee, northeastern Arkansas, northwest Mississippi, and the Missouri Bootheel). I spent my early years...
by William Keyse Rudolph | Apr 10, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Hudson, 1811−1844 American Portrait of a Man, Called a Self-Portrait 1839 oil on canvas Collections of the Louisiana State Museum, 07526B Long believed to be a self-portrait, this painting has been championed as one of the earliest such examples by an artist of...
by William Keyse Rudolph | Apr 17, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Julien Hudson died in his native city of New Orleans, in 1844, at age 33, under a cloud. After roughly ten years of a professional career as a portraitist, he seemingly had little to show for his efforts. He may, in all probability, have taken his own life, out of...
by Amy Mayer | Apr 24, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The question that invariably came up when folks who didn’t know me well learned I was producing a radio documentary honoring the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps was, “were you in the Peace Corps?” or, more presumptuously, “where (or when)...