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President Trump and religious leaders praying in the Oval Office

Today is a National Day of Prayer. Should That be Legal?

How solid is the wall between church and state?

by David B. Gowler via Made By History on May 3, 2018

Stereograph titled 'The Toucans' depicting three toucans and a snake amid plants and rocks

Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality

The shocking power of immersing oneself in another world was all the buzz once before—about 150 years ago.

by Clive Thompson via Smithsonian on September 21, 2017

Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.

by Daegan Miller via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 16, 2017

‘Hey Boy, You Want To Go See A Hangin’?’: A Lynching From A White Southerner’s View

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.

by Jonathan Capehart via Washington Post on June 9, 2017

The Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas engulfed in flames

How Religious Literacy Might Have Changed the Waco Tragedy

Religious scholars argue that the Waco raid was not justified and that with more understanding of theology, the loss of life could have been avoided.

by Peter Feuerherd, Jean E. Rosenfield, Mary Zeiss Stange, Ivan Strenski via JSTOR Daily on April 19, 2017

Painting "Open Casket" by Dana Schultz

Dana Schutz’s ‘Open Casket’

Should white artists be allowed to depict black suffering?

by Adam Shatz via LRB blog on March 24, 2017

A Black man in a hoodie.

The Hoodie and the Hijab

Arabness, Blackness, and the figure of terror.

by Leah Mirakhor via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 6, 2015

Civil War reenactors.

Telling the Untold Story 1

Why Marvin Greer spends his weekends playing the part of a slave at Civil War reenactments.

via BackStory on March 1, 2013

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