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The History Department Bracket Is Here and It Has Tenure
There isn’t much turnover with these selections.
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Russ Oates
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SBNation.com
on
March 13, 2018
How a Group of Journalists Turned Hip-Hop Into a Literary Movement
Looking back at the golden era of rap writing.
by
Dean Van Nguyen
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Pitchfork
on
March 12, 2018
Agriculture Wars
On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by
Nick Murray
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Viewpoint Magazine
on
March 12, 2018
Fine Specimens
How Walt Whitman became the quintessential poet of disability and death.
by
David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
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March 11, 2018
Black Atlantis
Why do white people love Black Panther, just as they love Star Wars?
by
Asad Haider
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Viewpoint Magazine
on
March 5, 2018
The Unlikely Pulp Fiction Illustrations of Edward Hopper
When the iconic painter drew cowboys for the pulp-fiction magazine, 'Adventure.'
by
Daniel Crown
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Literary Hub
on
March 5, 2018
The Media and the Ku Klux Klan: A Debate That Began in the 1920s
The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.
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Lois Beckett
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Jesse Brenneman
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The Guardian
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March 5, 2018
The 1968 Fashion Show, the History Lesson Melania Missed
What the First Lady could learn from the fashion show that was supposed to showcase America First fashion.
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
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Politico Magazine
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March 5, 2018
Hollywood Has Always Been Political. And it Hasn’t Always Been Liberal.
Conservatives have used celebrity glitz effectively, too.
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Kathryn Cramer Brownell
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Washington Post
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March 2, 2018
Voices in Time: Horror Movie Scene-Setting
The author of 'High-Risers' revisits 'Candyman,' in which public housing is the greatest horror of all.
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Ben Austen
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
March 1, 2018
What Would W. E. B. Du Bois Make of 'Black Panther'?
Considering Du Bois' complex ideas on the role of black artists in the struggle against white supremacy.
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Clint Smith
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The Paris Review
on
March 1, 2018
An Investigation Into the History of the 'Ditz' Voice
How pitch, tonality, and celebrity imitation have portrayed cluelessness.
by
Jody Amable
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Atlas Obscura
on
March 1, 2018
Boston’s Most Radical TV Show Blew the Minds of a Stoned Generation in 1967
When a Tufts instructor launched the trippy TV show on WGBH, it was unlike anything viewers had ever seen.
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Ryan H. Walsh
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Boston Globe
on
March 1, 2018
Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Virginia B. Spivey
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Digital Public Library of America
on
February 28, 2018
Victorian Era
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Tona Hangen
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Digital Public Library of America
on
February 28, 2018
Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern American Architecture
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Ella Howard
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Digital Public Library of America
on
February 28, 2018
Nineteenth-Century Schools for the Deaf and Blind
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Melissa Jacobs
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Digital Public Library of America
on
February 28, 2018
Willa Cather, Pioneer
Willa Cather's life and work broke with the standards of her time.
by
Jane Smiley
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The Paris Review
on
February 27, 2018
The Many Dimensions of "Black Panther"
The blockbuster refuses to flatten its characters into simple heroes or villains — and that's exactly what makes it so refreshing.
by
Melvin L. Rogers
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Dissent
on
February 27, 2018
Bohemian Tragedy
The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.
by
Joy Lanzendorfer
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Poetry Foundation
on
February 26, 2018
Charles Dickens, America, & The Civil War
What might Charles Dickens have thought about the American Civil War and the American struggle for abolition and social reforms?
by
Sarah Kay Bierle
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Emerging Civil War
on
February 23, 2018
Can the World’s Biggest Dictionary Survive the Internet?
The costs of achieving the centuries-old lexicographical dream of capturing the entire English language.
by
Andrew Dickson
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The Guardian
on
February 23, 2018
In the Dark All Katz Are Grey: Notes on Jewish Nostalgia
Searching for where I belong, I find myself cobbling together a mongrel Judaism—half-remembered and contradictory and all mine.
by
Samuel Ashworth
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Hazlitt
on
February 23, 2018
Baseball's First Stolen Base Exploited a Loophole in the Rulebook
People in the audience thought the player who stole the base was playing a joke.
via
SB Nation
on
February 21, 2018
A Tramp Across America
How a Los Angeles Times editor helped create the myth of the American West.
by
Greg Luther
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
February 19, 2018
'Black Panther' and the Invention of 'Africa'
The film's hero and antagonist represent dueling responses to five centuries of African exploitation at the hands of the West.
by
Jelani Cobb
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The New Yorker
on
February 18, 2018
How 'Black Panther' Taps Into 500 Years of History
The film draws on centuries of black dreams of independence to create Wakanda.
by
N. D. B. Connolly
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The Hollywood Reporter
on
February 16, 2018
Rat Race
Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?
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Dylan Gottlieb
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Public Seminar
on
February 15, 2018
Searching for Wakanda
The African roots of the Black Panther story.
by
Thomas F. McDow
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Origins
on
February 15, 2018
Ghost Dancers Past and Present
Thinking beyond the dichotomies of oppressor and victim reveals the human urges that inspire so much of our expressive culture.
by
Anthony Chaney
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
February 14, 2018
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