Discovery & Inspiration
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Simon Middleton, “Changing Forms of Value: The Shift to Paper Money in Eighteenth-Century America”
May 29, 2020
We tend to think of money as a familiar object th…
Christina Snyder, “Slavery After the Civil War: How Bondage Persisted in the US and its Territories”
May 22, 2020
As commonly understood, slavery in the United Sta…
Ian Burney, “Presumed Innocent: The Legacy of Erle Stanley Gardner”
May 15, 2020
Erle Stanley Gardner is best remembered as a best…
Emily Lutenski, “Love, Scandal, and the Legacies of Margery Latimer and Jean Toomer”
May 08, 2020
After she tragically died in childbirth in 1932, …
Yolonda Wilson, “Racial Bias, Mortality, and the Pursuit of Justice”
May 01, 2020
Research indicates that African Americans are far…
Sonja Drimmer, “Wars of the Roses and the Court of Public Opinion”
April 22, 2020
The 15th-century Wars of the Roses between Yorkis…
Ann Wierda Rowland, “Reading the Readers: Books Clubs of the Past”
April 12, 2020
When we think of the way in which past audiences …
Lisa Earl Castillo, “Recovering the Story of Casa Branca and Afro-Brazilian Identity”
August 26, 2019
Founded by freed slaves in the early nineteenth c…
Mar Hicks, “The Meta-Narrative of the Machine: Computing and Social Inequalities in Great Britain”
August 26, 2019
In the popular imagination, computers are not onl…
Joseph E. Taylor, III, “Conservation Controversies: Public Lands in the American West”
August 26, 2019
Between 1891 and 1939 a substantial portion of th…
Discovery & Inspiration asks “What can we learn b…
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