TITLE

Noteworthy

AUTHOR(S)

Lifson, Amy

PUB. DATE

July 1996

SOURCE

Humanities;Jul/Aug96, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p26

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on various developments relating to the humanities community as of August 1996. Naming of humanities teacher Mary Beth Blegen as Teacher of the Year by the US Department of Education; Testing of the first prototype of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database; Awards received by `Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography,' by David S. Reynolds.

ACCESSION #

9608132860

Tags: HUMANITIES

 

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