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What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche
Matthew Gavin Frank Explores the Dark Side of Our Desire to Explore the Ocean’s Depths
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Matthew Gavin Frank
| June 12, 2025
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Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia
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Martin Padgett
| June 12, 2025
To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential
A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, America's first Black Celebrity Heiress
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A'Lelia Bundles
| June 11, 2025
How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery
Zaakir Tameez Explores the Domestic and International Dynamics of the Early Days of the Civil War
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Zaakir Tameez
| June 11, 2025
Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country
Arianne Edmonds on the Intellectual and Political Legacy of Her Great-Great-Grandfather, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds
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Arianne Edmonds
| June 11, 2025
Tyranny as Tragedy: On
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Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality
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Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll
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Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide
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| June 6, 2025
States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution
Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power
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| June 5, 2025
Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of
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Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality
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| June 4, 2025
How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers
Claire Lynch on the Legacy of Section 28 and the Parallels With Current Book Bans Across the Pond
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| June 3, 2025
From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics
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Deborah Baker
| June 3, 2025
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