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How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
Richard Evans Schultes – ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer and photographer – is regarded as one of the most...
For decades, they’ve sustainably managed their community forest, relying on it for food, shelter and livelihoods. By...
An exploration at what helps us thrive in the face of floods, droughts, fires and other disruptions...
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From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Disneyland, the concept has represented both the experimental and the conventional. In the...
Texas cattle trails, cattle drives, and the people who worked them. Originally published by the Texas Alliance...
Vast amounts of black property were taken by unscrupulous individual use of legal trickery. I recently read...
After the Civil War, Rose Herera wanted more than freedom – she wanted justice. Early in 1865,...
A virtual tour of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published by Lapham’s Quarterly,...
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Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government...
Lincoln has generally been absent as a model in European social and public life, rarely emphasized as...