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    How a Group of Fearless American Women Defied Convention to Defeat the Nazis

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    By Becky Aikman  May 8, 2025

    Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together

    “Is this my family’s thing? The need to pin memories down, preserve them in a drawer, put a frame around them?”

     
    By Michele Filgate  May 8, 2025

    An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers

    The Author of "Theory of Water" Offers Some Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Spirituality

     
    By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  May 8, 2025

    Remembering the Unacknowledged Sacrifices of the Red Army’s Female Snipers

    Shelly Sanders on the Brave Women Silenced By the Country They Fought to Protect

     
    By Shelly Sanders  May 8, 2025

    From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

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    By Natasha Lester  May 8, 2025

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

    Featuring Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and Others

     
    By Diana Arterian  May 8, 2025