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The Traffic Stop: One of the Great Abuses of Police Power in Contemporary Life
Dan Albert on an Obsolete Enforcement Practice That Just Won't Die
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Dan Albert
| June 12, 2019
On the Rise of the Feminist Internet
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Linda Hirshman
| June 11, 2019
On the 18th-Century Origins of Celebrity Worship
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Sharon Marcus
| June 10, 2019
The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won't Die
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Lauren Markham
| June 10, 2019
Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation
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Harmony Holiday
| June 10, 2019
5 Undersung Moments in History You Probably Didn't Learn About in Class
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Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections
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Antony DeCurtis on the Instruments Behind Iconic Rock 'n' Roll Moments
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The Poetic Half-Life of One Family's Nuclear History
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Tyler Mills
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Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels
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Dan Werb
| June 5, 2019
Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism
"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."
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Jill Lepore
| June 4, 2019
On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage
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When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal
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