June 13, 2008

The Humanities and the Public

To the Editor:

I was happy to see Patricia Nelson Limerick's lively account of the rewards of engaging in "applied" humanities work ("Tales of Western Adventure," Careers, May 9). Her work at the Center of the American West is an outstanding illustration of the dual benefits of scholar satisfaction and public benefit that can result from such engagement.

I would like to offer another powerful illustration: the work of the 56 state humanities councils, the state-based partners of

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