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Independence Day Special: How I Learned to Love Patriotic Poetry
From “Paul Revere’s Ride” to “Barbara Frietchie,” poems use some fiction to inspire love of country.
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Impertinent Questions with A. Roger Ekirch
A bloody mutiny, double identity, and a vicious presidential election.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Casablanca, Madeleine Lebeau Became Forever the Face of French Resistance
75 years after its premiere, Casablanca still moves us.
By Noah Isenberg
