10 Poems for National Hispanic Heritage Month
One of the most meaningful ways to celebrate the month between September 15 and October 15 may be to lend our attention to verse.
Venus of the Sewers
The Roman sewer, the Cloaca Maxima, was presided over by a goddess whose shrine stood near the Forum.
Parker Pillsbury, Nineteenth-Century Male Feminist
Abolitionists like the New Hampshire native believed that masculinity required self-control, setting them against violent enslavers.
At South Africa’s Constitutional Court, a Democracy Brick by Brick
The themes of truth and reconciliation echo throughout the Court’s design, evoking the democratic values of post-apartheid South Africa.
Eight Open Collections Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month
Freely available images and other primary source materials from the JSTOR Open Community Collections and Artstor Public Collections.
The Accidental Invention of the Color Mauve
Or, better dyeing through chemistry.
Modern Gentry, Pitfalls of Tree Planting, and R. Kelly
Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
When a Battle to Ban Textbooks Became Violent
In 1974, the culture wars came to Kanawha County, West Virginia, inciting protests over school curriculum.
The Women (Real and Imagined) Resisting Caudillos
In Latin America and the Caribbean, women's groups have acted to oppose military dictatorships. In fiction, their roles are rarely that of protagonist.
Wood: The Best “New” Building Material?
A 2017 study for an 80-story wooden structure in Chicago was an opportunity to examine the potential for the building material's future.