Focusing on a wide range of interdisciplinary themes and ideas for humanities instruction, the 17 articles in this journal issue discuss the following topics: (1) literature, humanities, and the adult learner; (2) the role of the humanities in educating for a democracy; (3) humanities in the marketplace; (4) literature versus "great books" in high school; (5) adjustments and continuities in English and humanities courses; (6) teaching virtue through literature; (7) cybernetic structures in Ray Bradbury; (8) student developed units on the nuclear arms race; (9) a family research assignment; (l0) an interdisciplinary college course on the classic/romantic arts; (11) informal classroom rules; (12) building reading improvement in English classes; (l3) application of the scientific principle in teaching; (14) the literature curriculum; (15) the paradoxical nature of time in Heinrich Boll and Giorgio de Chirico; (l6) an interview with June Langford Berkley; and (l7) censorship in the prison system. Two book reviews are included at the end of the document. (HTH)