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CommentThe Problem with Baltimore
The impact of the city's history with slavery.Black Perspectives -
DiscoveryHow a Curator at the Museum of the American Revolution Solved a Nearly 250-Year-Old Art Mystery
An eye-witness depiction of the Continental Army passing through Philadelphia hung in a New York apartment for decades.Philadelphia Inquirer -
Film ReviewThe Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s
"Late Night with the Devil," a “found footage” horror film, perfectly captures the mood and style that surrounded media depictions of the occult in the 1970s.Religion Dispatches -
RetrievalAmerican Exchanges: Third Reich’s Elite Schools
How the Nazi government used exchange student programs to foster sympathy for Nazism in the United States.OUPblog -
DiscoveryThere Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.Los Angeles Review of Books -
Book ExcerptThe Chronicler of Asian America: On Photographer and Activist Corky Lee
“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”Literary Hub -
exhibitCivil War Memory
Historical understandings and myths about the Civil War's causes, meanings, and legacies still shape American culture and national discourse about the country's future.
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