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How Black Female Jazz Performers Confronted a Racist and Misogynistic World

How Black Female Jazz Performers Confronted a Racist and Misogynistic World

Larry Tye on the Triumphs and Struggles of 20th-Century Jazz Women

By Larry Tye | May 7, 2024

What World War I Trench Art Tells Us About Its Creators

What World War I Trench Art Tells Us About Its Creators

Ann Hood on Commemorating the Fallen and Unknown Soldiers of the Great War

By Ann Hood | May 7, 2024

Inside the Occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, 1968 Version

Inside the Occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, 1968 Version

From Charles Kaiser’s “1968 in America”

By Charles Kaiser | May 3, 2024

How the German State Haphazardly Prosecuted Nazi War Criminals

How the German State Haphazardly Prosecuted Nazi War Criminals

Tobias Buck on Collective Complicity and Transitional Justice in Post-War Germany

By Tobias Buck | May 3, 2024

“Crazy with the poison of Vietnam in my lungs.” Paul Auster on the ’68 Columbia protests.

“Crazy with the poison of Vietnam in my lungs.” Paul Auster on the ’68 Columbia protests.

By James Folta | May 1, 2024

How Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia

How Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia

Aarathi Prasad on the Cultural and Scientific History of a Most Versatile Material

By Aarathi Prasad | May 1, 2024

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Earl Swift on the Continuing Regime of Racial Terror in the Post-Civil War American South

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What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

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Bettany Hughes Considers the Creation and Construction of the Ancient World

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Joe Fassler Ponders Our Innate Desire to Rise Above It All

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Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

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How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

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Nicola Nice on the Hostess Langston Hughes Called the “Joy Goddess of Harlem”

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On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

Gabrielle Bellot Tries to Think Beyond the Red/Blue Binary That Makes Enemies of Neighbors

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