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The Play Speaks to You: How a Translator Stays True to the Text and Connects with the Audience
The tragedy of Phèdre transcends its original verse.
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When Television Was a Medical Device
Television was once the wave of the future in health care.
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What Did Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and E. B. White Have in Common?
So many great American writers got their start in a children's periodical.
By Danny Heitman -
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Moldy Church Records in Latin America Document the Lives of Millions of Slaves
Now, intrepid scholars are saving those parish baptismal records from war, neglect, and rot.
By Paula Wasley -
Frederick Douglass Lived Another Fifty Years After Publishing His First Autobiography
Robert S. Levine answers questions about Douglass as an abolitionist, an author, and a "radical woman suffrage man."
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What’s the Best Way to Read the Divine Comedy If You Don’t Know Italian?
So many ways to tell Dante's journey.
By Steve Moyer -
In Casablanca, Madeleine Lebeau Became Forever the Face of French Resistance
75 years after its premiere, Casablanca still moves us.
By Noah Isenberg -
The White House Historical Association Tells the Saga of a Living Museum
From Dolley Madison saving Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington during the War of 1812, the furnishings of the White House set the stage for the country's history.
By Steve Moyer -
The Art of Thinking in Other People’s Heads
The addictive qualities of light reading.
By Alexander Stern
