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To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

Ed Simon on the Paris of Appalachia

By Ed Simon | April 8, 2021

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Victoria Law on the Historical Inevitability of the Modern Day Prison System

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A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

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By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 8, 2021

Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

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By Just the Right Book | April 8, 2021

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

By Walker Caplan | April 7, 2021

Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

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Remember when a Brontë Society member got into a public feud with a British supermodel?

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