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Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she ste
A Serious Man (2009) may seem much different from the Coens’ adaptation of No Country for Old Men, w
In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in eco
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Pre
In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly te
In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflect
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront techn
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024)
Listen to this interview of Gilles Perrouin, FNRS Research Associate, University of Namur, Belgium.
People with dementia are uniquely qualified to discuss the challenges of their condition and the fea
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state
Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the s
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this
Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against
In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambr
Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020 (Libr
