Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
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Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age by Alasdair Roberts (2006)
Coalition of Journalists for Open Government
Codes, Ciphers, Secrets and Cryptic Communication: Making and Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphics to the Internet by Fred B. Wrixon (2005)
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett (1988)
Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang (1988)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
National Freedom of Information Coalition
The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore by William Lutz (1997)
"Open Secrets" by Malcolm Gladwell, in the New Yorker, January 8, 2007
"Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (1950)
Project on Government Oversight
"Richard Corey," a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Secrecy and Publicity: Dilemmas of Democracy by Francis E. Rourke (1966)
Secrecy Wars by Philip Melanson (2002)
Secrecy: The American Experience by Patrick Moynihan (1999)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, in the New Yorker, March 18, 1939
Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1997)
Secrets: A Left Bank Book edited by Linny Stovall (1996)
Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation by Sissela Bok (1983)
Three Case Histories by Sigmund Freud
The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung
Published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Oregon Humanities.
© 2007 Oregon Council for the Humanities