Iowa

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Americans don’t hesitate to say anything they please about a public performance. But the right to do so wasn’t established until the Cherry Sisters sued a critic who didn’t like their appalling vaudeville act.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Living in, and with, the universal Midwestern latticework</span></p>

<p>The greatest American car ever made? “It’s a Duesy.”</p>

<p>Young, naive, and irrepressible, a turn-of-the-20th-century Iowa teacher documented her coming-of-age in letters home.</p>