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Articles with keyword "history"

Linking Verse across Adjoining Rooms, detail

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Sister Poets

In China they were called cainü.

Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill

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Murder on Foot

The walking tour goes digital.

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Our Founding Novelist

Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.

John Mitchell, Jr., editor, Richmond Planet

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Brother from the Richmond Planet

Crusading Journalist John Mitchell Jr. took on the lynchers.

One of Odysseus’ sailors victimized by Scylla

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“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.

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The Beehive Archive

Utah listens to its own quirky history.

Image of Herbert Hoover

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The Politics of Food

How America kept Russia from starving.

Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Exposition

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Enchanting Reality

World's fairs during the Depression.

Building the Panama Canal

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Digging Across Panama

The Americans triumphed over yellow fever, landslides, and worker strikes to change the earth's landscape.