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How Did Phrenology Get So Popular in Victorian Society?

How Did Phrenology Get So Popular in Victorian Society?

Michael Taylor on the Known and Anonymous Scientific Radicals of 19th Century Britain

By Michael Taylor | July 17, 2024

In Praise of <em> Ginkgo Biloba</em>, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

In Praise of Ginkgo Biloba, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

Amy Stewart Talks to Jianming (Jimmy) Shen, the Ginkgo Chronicler of Hangzhou

By Amy Stewart | July 17, 2024

How Judy Blume’s <em>Deenie</em> Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

How Judy Blume’s Deenie Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

Rachelle Bergstein on Self-Pleasure and Sex Education in Children's Literature

By Rachelle Bergstein | July 16, 2024

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

Justin St. Germain Considers the Blurry Borders Between Memory, Memoir and Myth

By Justin St. Germain | July 15, 2024

How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

James Bradley on the Integral Role of Migratory Patterns to Human and Environmental Wellbeing

By James Bradley | July 15, 2024

“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

American Howard Norman on Finding His Literary Home in the Canadian Maritimes

By Howard Norman | July 12, 2024

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The Journalist and Suffragist Elizabeth Garver Jordan Covers a Macabre Media Sensation

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Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of <em>My Lady Jane</em>

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Alexis Gunderson on Bringing the Little Told Story of Lady Jane Grey to the Screen

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On the Time Benjamin Franklin, American Show-Off, Jumped Naked Into the Thames

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Vicki Valosik on Our Millennia Long Love-Hate Relationship With Getting in the Water

By Vicki Valosik | June 27, 2024

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

By Adam Smyth | June 26, 2024

Generation Franchise: <br>Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

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Jess Row on the Ubiquity of the Digital Persona, From Child Stars to Disney Adults

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