Persistence of 1937

Donald Hall

Public Images

Peter Walsh

Adventure

Martin Heller

What Shall We Tell the Children?

Linda Simon

Reviewed:

Historical Literacy: The Case for History in American Education

edited by Paul Gagnon and the Bradley Commission on History in Schools. Macmillan, 1989.

Art Preview

Mary Sherman

Althea: The First Time

J. M. Alonso

Film Preview

Gerald Peary

Nostalgia

George Packer

Reviewed:

Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer

by Richard Rhodes. Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Bird, Kansas

by Tony Parker. Knopf, 1989.

Spellbound: Growing up in God’s Country

by David McKain. University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Yankee Drover: Being the Unpretending Life of Asa Sheldon, Farmer, Trader, and Working Man 1788—1870

by Asa Sheldon, foreword by John Seelye. University Press of New England, 1988.

Music Preview

Anthony Tommasini

Jazz Giants

Michael Ullman

Theater Preview

Jon Lipsky

Cares

Stuart Dischell

Annals of the Death of the Humanities

David Marc

Making It New

Jonathan Wilson

Horses

Sara Rath