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March 2018

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Tennessee’s ratification

How Tennessee Became the Final Battleground in the Fight for Suffrage

One hundred years later, the campaign for the women’s vote has many potent similarities to the politics of today

Joe Leahy at his Kilima coffee plantation at the height of his wealth and power.

The Reckoning

Twenty-five years after making a series of acclaimed documentaries about an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea, the filmmaker returns to discover the legacy of an epic clash over land and money.

Joseph Kayan, a Goroka Show participant from Chimbu Province

Present Tense

From Tribal traditions to urban strife in Papua New Guinea

A British Columbia rainforest

The Whispering Trees

Do trees talk with each other? Have feelings? Memories? A controversial German forester says yes, and his ideas are shaking up the scientific world.

Photographs by Diàna Markosian

Iconic house

Against the Grain

The denim-clad artist who painted American Gothic wasn’t the hayseed he’d have you believe. A celebrated novelist of the heartland returns to Iowa in search of the real Grant Wood.

Wood took aim at the Daughters of the American Revolution

Wood Takes Manhattan

The artist who posed as a farmer gets the star treatment at the Whitney in his biggest show ever.

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Discussion

Reader responses to our January/February issue

Revisiting Rockwell

His “Four Freedoms” helped win World War II. What do they mean today?

The Archaeology of Wealth

Researchers trace the inequality gap back more than 11,000 years.

Fantastic Beasts

...and where to find them. John James Audubon’s last, and little known, book.

Cereal Killers

Why have wild hamsters in French cornfields become cannibals? Scientists stalk the murderers in the maize.

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