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Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Katrina M. Powell Explores the Long History of Migration and Displacement in a Majority White Region

By Katrina M. Powell | June 10, 2024

Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

Scott Preston on How Botched Policy Responses Disease Led to Political Extremism

By Scott Preston | June 10, 2024

Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch

Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch

Eleanor Medhurst Considers the Aesthetic and Practice of Queerness in 17th-Century Europe

By Eleanor Medhurst | June 7, 2024

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

The Author of “American Bloods” in Conversation with James Hibbard

By James Hibbard | June 7, 2024

D-Day, 80 Years On: An Oral History of the Allies’ Bold Attack

D-Day, 80 Years On: An Oral History of the Allies’ Bold Attack

Garrett M. Graff on the First Hours of the Invasion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe

By Garrett M. Graff | June 6, 2024

Confronting the Abject: What Gaza Can Teach Us About the Struggles That Shape Our World

Confronting the Abject: What Gaza Can Teach Us About the Struggles That Shape Our World

Tareq Baconi on Overcoming Shared Helplessness and Working Towards Liberation in Palestine and Beyond

By Tareq Baconi | June 5, 2024

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“Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s <em>Heart of Darkness</em>

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Robert G. Parkinson on Historicizing Imperial Encounters at Home and Abroad

By Robert G. Parkinson | May 29, 2024

A protest newspaper is gaining traction. But what's next for The New York War Crimes?

A protest newspaper is gaining traction. But what's next for The New York War Crimes?

By Brittany Allen | May 28, 2024

How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

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James Shapiro on the Social and Cultural Impact of Film’s Triumph Over the Stage

By James Shapiro | May 28, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

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Abolitionist and Writer John Swanson Jacobs on Reclaiming Liberty In a Land of Unfreedom

By John Swanson Jacobs | May 24, 2024

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