Posters for The Host and Parasite

From The Host to Parasite: Hollywood’s Hidden Hand

Bong Joon-ho’s films interrogate the ways modern Korean culture has been shaped by the post-war relationship between the United States and South Korea.
Egyptian papyrus which describes therapy of migraine by bandaging a clay crocodile with herbs stuffed into its mouth to the head of the patient.

Crocodile of a Migraine? An Egyptian Rx

Why the ancient Egyptians did—or did not—recommended strapping a clay crocodile to an aching head.
Simone Weil at the Lycée Henri-IV, 1926

Simone Weil: Voluntary Worker

The weeks Weil spent working in French factories helped to develop her ideas about the meaning and value of labor.
The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide

Working on the (Underground) Railroad

Born a free Black man, William Still kept the books and managed the money for the Philadelphia branch of the Underground Railroad.
An illustration from the masthead of The Catholic Worker

Catholics Against Racism

As early as the 1930s, Black Catholic parishioners formed alliances with their white counterparts to put their churches in service of anti-racist goals.
Young man climbing red bars against white background

The Logic and Legality of Growth

Economic growth is closely linked to profit maximization, which is central to the functioning of global market-based economies.
The far side of the moon

The Moon Might Be Older Than Scientists Previously Thought

A new study shines light on its history.
Kavita Daswani’s For Matrimonial Purposes (2003); Daswani’s The Village Bride of Beverly Hills (2004); and Sonia Singh’s Goddess for Hire (2004).

The Hybrid Heroines of “Bollywood Chick Lit”

Material consumption and marriage have different meanings for South Asian American women, and those meanings should shape the way we read Desi “chick lit.”
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36635239

The Age of Wonder Meets the Age of Information

What can past eras of information overload teach students about critically consuming content in the present?
A series of pages of a Chinese publication with dotted frames indicating some are missing

On The Fragility of Our Knowledge Base

Historian Glenn D. Tieffert shows how state interests in the People’s Republic of China can be protected by editing online databases and collections.