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How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee

How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee

On the Vital Importance of the NEH and the NEA

By Margaret Renkl | May 4, 2017

State Censorship: How the Library of Congress Came to Define Obscenity

State Censorship: How the Library of Congress Came to Define Obscenity

On the Virtually Unknown History of the Delta Collection

By Melissa Adler | May 4, 2017

Maaza Mengiste, Carrie Brownstein, and Jill Filipovic on Gender and Power

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"History is malleable, it reshapes itself so easily, too easily"

By Literary Hub | May 3, 2017

In the End, Everyone Will Have a Mugshot: On the Birth of the Police

In the End, Everyone Will Have a Mugshot: On the Birth of the Police

The Police Came Into Being to Answer a Single Question:
Who Owns What?

By Bill Lavender | May 3, 2017

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Muslim-American Kids Need to See More of Themselves in Pop Culture

Hena Khan on the Daily Need to Combat Rising Islamophobia

By Hena Khan | May 3, 2017

Another Man's Liberator: Hopeless Votes for Trump in West Virginia

Another Man's Liberator: Hopeless Votes for Trump in West Virginia

Joe Halstead Goes Home to Coal Country

By Joe Halstead | May 2, 2017

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Dictator at the Podium: The First 100 Days Takes Me Back 25 Years

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Ancient Astronaut Aryans: On the Far Right Obsession with Indo-Europeans

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The Bizarre Pseudo-Historical Belief System Behind White Nationalism

By Ramon Glazov | April 28, 2017

Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance

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Timothy Snyder Take Us From Nazism in Austria to the Milgram Experiment

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Eleanor Roosevelt:

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Jill Lepore on One of the Greatest First Ladies of All Time

By Jill Lepore | April 27, 2017

Telling Stories of Police Brutality, One Panel at a Time

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For Dan Méndez Moore, Labor Justice is Racial Justice

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She Refused to Give Up: Vivian Gornick on Grace Paley's Activism

She Refused to Give Up: Vivian Gornick on Grace Paley's Activism

A Life dedicated to knowing how hard it is to act—and how necessary

By Vivian Gornick | April 18, 2017

Álvaro Enrigue: Hope for America on a Snow Day in Harlem

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Defying the Trump Administration, One Stoop at a Time

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Is Hillary Clinton a Modern-Day Cleopatra?

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