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Harry Clark Bentley
Clifford Putney discusses the life story of Harry Clark Bentley, a prominent accountant and educator in Massachusetts. Bentley founded…
At Wit’s End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke
Louis Kaplan discusses the Jewish joke as a rhetorical figure in larger cultural debates in Germany and how…
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
Rick Halpern discusses Bourke-White’s artistic and political formation and speaks to the cultural, political, and economic circumstances that…
Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
Sabine Frühstück discusses the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. Image courtesy…
A History of Kurdish Poetry
Farangis Ghaderi provides a detailed account of the development of classical Kurdish poetry and its main trends and…
The Renaissance in Italy
Kenneth Bartlett discusses the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals who created some of the most enduring ideas and artefacts of Western civilization
American Health Crisis
Martin Halliwell discusses contemporary public health crises and the future of public health in the United States. Martin…
Almost Citizens
Sam Erman discusses the story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of…
More-Than-Human Histories
Emily O’Gorman and Andrea Gaynor discuss environmental history and the broader environmental humanities, outlining and defining an approach to more-than-human histories
Tocqueville on Democracy and Revolution
Daniel Gordon discusses Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities
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