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- Ethical Geography: How abolitionists used spatial practice to reject their own authority
- Ralph Waldo Emerson ca. 1857. Photograph: George Eastman House Photography Collection BY MARTHA SCHOOLMAN Assistant professor of English at Fl ...
- #UPWeek: Writing the Continuous Book.
- This post is published on the occasion of University Press Week, in which about 30 university presses have published posts on five significant topics: ...
- A sustainable planet is a nuclear-free planet.
- What if the movement for climate change joined forces with the movement for a nuclear-free planet? Image via Flickr /public domain license. BY ...
- Where do cultures go when they die? The story of Codfish, the Indian, and the phonograph.
- When the Edison phonograph was first made in the 1890s, people used it to record their own voices. It later became one of the first commercially produ ...
- LGBT History Month: A look at behind-the-scenes groundwork that leads to the headline-grabbing victories.
- BY RYAN R. THORESON In October 1994, a group of U.S. activists led by Rodney Wilson, a teacher in Missouri, created LGBT History Month ...
- Students on Isherwood: "You Can't Help Smiling," on Cabaret and Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin
- Christopher Freeman and James J. Berg, editors of the forthcoming volume The American Isherwood (December 2014), have compiled exemplary essays ...
- The making of the book: Behind Twin Ports by Trolley
- The bustling corner of Superior Street at 5th Avenue West. Images: Minnesota Streetcar Museum/Aaron Isaacs. BY AARON ISAACS Author and editor of ...
- Extras: Best to Laugh excerpt, trailer series, and discussion guide
- In the opening prologue to her latest novel, Best to Laugh, Lorna Landvik writes: A black cocktail dress, decorated with a smattering of sequins ac ...
- Teenage rebellion by music? Not so prevalent anymore.
- BY MARK ALLISTER Professor of English, environmental studies, and American studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota Teenage rebellion takes many for ...
- Despite that white students are no longer the numerical majority in U.S. schools, racial inequality persists.
- BY GILDA L. OCHOA Professor of sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o studies at Pomona College Recently, much has been made about census reports that hig ...