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What The New Right Learned In School
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Essential reading for anyone interested in higher education or Republican politics, either today or in the past.
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A New Citizen in a New World
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A reader would have to have blinders on to not draw parallels between the past and the present.
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A Place for Berlinguer
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Enrico Berlinguer led the Italian Communist Party at the height of its power. A new exhibit at the Mattatoio grapples with his legacy.
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Harry Benjamin, the Maverick
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Through his participation in the medical community, the theater community, and his connections to literary artists, Benjamin openly questioned how medical professionals and society at large defined and categorized gender.
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The Problem of Plenty
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There was nothing inevitable about the kind of gun country the U.S. is today.
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Bankrupt Authority
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Advanced Placement: “a money-making racket that lets states off the hook for underfunding education”
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The RRRevolution Will Be Cinematic
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This unflinching depiction of the British Raj and its terror is long overdue in Western pop culture.
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The Plague Is Not Over
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Twenty-five years ago, straight Americans were ready to call an end to the AIDS pandemic. But for Sarah Schulman, it has never receded.
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Expressions Of Radical Hope
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My agency in choosing modes of expression must extend to my students.
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Radical Hope and a Liberal Education
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What is the purpose of education? Is it just to fill jobs with skilled workers?
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Contingency Is Not Complacency
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Just as Gannon calls for seeing students as humans we can trust, we also need to humanize and trust adjuncts.
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Kevin Gannon’s “Radical Hope”: A Roundtable Introduction
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The book is a call to arms, and more necessary than ever.
In Search of Black Europe
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Johny Pitts’s travelogue is a counter to historical narratives that erase the black European experience.
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The Process of Writing History
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How do we make sure faculty and students are on the same page when approaching a writing assignment?
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Starting With The Essentials
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Most undergraduate history writing is done by non-majors. Does history writing instruction reflect that?
Story-Shaped Things
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Historians tell stories about the past. This philosopher thinks those stories are often wrong–and dangerous.
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The Women Who Showed Us Life
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Over its four-decade run, LIFE Magazine had 105 staff photographers. Six of them were women.
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What Happened to My People
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The second half of PBS’s Reconstruction documentary begins where the traditional narrative ends.
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A Usable History of Reconstruction
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The greatest strength of the new PBS documentary is its desire to inform contemporary debates. But this may also be one of its weaknesses.
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Adams Family Values
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They were a family of seekers, shaped not only by their heritage but by their travels abroad.