Cara Strickland, Author at JSTOR Daily

Alexis Soyer frequently cooked for royalty and dignitaries, but also displayed a healthy social conscience.

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Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has lost a bit of its protest oomph—in part because of a decades-long denial of its later verses.

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