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“Malcolm Still Speaks.” Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X

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The Complicated—Yet Inspiring!—History of Spiritualism in America

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An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

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You’ve Got Mail: Poring Over the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

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How Stanley Kubrick Brought Stephen King’s <em>The Shining</em> to the Big Screen

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No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

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How Corporations Tried—And Failed—To Control the Spread of Content Online

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How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

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Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

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A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

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