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On Harriet Tubman's Final Escape Mission

On Harriet Tubman's Final Escape Mission

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Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

Nathalia Holt on What It Took to Break Into Animation in the 1930s

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The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

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On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

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What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

From Vietnam Die-Ins to Occupied Parks, Stillness as Dissent

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The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

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