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Curio

Of Stevedores and Book Slingers

Mention the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and what comes to mind are workers heaving bales along a waterfront, operating straddle carriers shipside, or driving winches above break bulk c

Curio

Hey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?

First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.

Julie Mulvihill, Executive Director of the Kansas Humanities Council

In Focus

Kansas's Julie Mulvihill

Kansas's Julie Mulvihill travels the state stumping for the humanities.

Duane W. Roller, professor emeritus of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University

IQ

Impertinent Questions with Duane W. Roller

On the elusive Cleopatra.

Linking Verse across Adjoining Rooms, detail

Feature

Sister Poets

In China they were called cainü.

Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill

Feature

Murder on Foot

The walking tour goes digital.

Feature

Our Founding Novelist

Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.

John Mitchell, Jr., editor, Richmond Planet

Feature

Brother from the Richmond Planet

Crusading Journalist John Mitchell Jr. took on the lynchers.

One of Odysseus’ sailors victimized by Scylla

Feature

“My Sejanus”

Rome's ruthless upstart was really a savvy insider, until fortune turned her back on him.

Barry Faulkner’s 1936 rendition of the Constitutional Convention

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The First Dissenters

George Mason swore he would rather "chop off his right hand" than sign the Constitution.