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How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

John Taylor Williams on Two Radical Communities

By John Taylor Williams | May 18, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Rachel Feltman Looks Into the Theories Behind Our (Very Common) Fixation on Feet

By Rachel Feltman | May 18, 2022

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

Putsata Reang on Telling a Tale Passed Down By Her Mother

By Putsata Reang | May 18, 2022

Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

“It was from the outset a blackface minstrel tune, entertainment built on slavery and the trade in human beings.”

By Emily Bingham | May 16, 2022

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Baboon Teeth, Urine Rinses... and More Horrors of Early Dentistry

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Paul Craddock on the Early Literature of Tooth Transplants

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2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

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Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

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Andrew Keen on the Chaos of Contemporary Power

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On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

Why Do So Many Cold Cases Go Unsolved?

By Kathryn Miles | May 12, 2022

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