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Syllabus

The History of Reproductive Rights: A Syllabus

A selection of stories on the history of reproductive rights and abortion to foster dialogue inside and outside of the classroom.
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Suggested Readings

Murder, Memory, and Normalcy

Well-researched stories from The Cut, Grist, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A poster for the 175th Anniversary of Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
Shared Collections

Ukraine’s National Poet

Perhaps no other bard has captured the sentiments of Ukraine and its emigrants as fully as Taras Shevchenko.
A NASA computer generated images of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites.
Suggested Readings

Space Junk, Science with Monks, and Imposter Syndrome

Well-researched stories from Science Alert, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
an illustration of bananas
Suggested Readings

Losing Bananas, Fighting Malaria, and Naming Objects

Well-researched stories from Salon, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A pembroke welsh corgi
Suggested Readings

From Syria to Ukraine, Anachronistic Dogs, and Caribou

Well-researched stories from Vox, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A painting by Makis E. Warlamis
Suggested Readings

Utopias, Imperial Horrors, and Bug-Based Dyes

Well-researched stories from Psyche, The New Yorker and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Customers hold out subsidy cards as they buy fresh bread on December 15, 2016 in Cairo, Egypt.
Suggested Readings

Urban Evolution, Daily Bread, and Nuclear War

Well-researched stories from Knowable Magazine, Wired and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A British Bulldog
Suggested Readings

Bulldogs, Serial Killers, and Talking Fish

Well-researched stories from Aeon, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Convicts working at Reed Camp, South Carolina, 1934
Syllabus

Mass Incarceration: A Syllabus

This selection of stories focuses on prison and mass incarceration in the US, which has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.
Cloud seeding
Suggested Readings

Cloud Seeding, Fake Fact-Checks, and Angela Davis at 78

Well-researched stories from Pro Publica, Smithsonian, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
The influential physicist, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu in 1958
Roundup

The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM

The Editors have compiled their favorite pieces highlighting the many overlooked contributions of women in STEM.
A portrait of Lu Yu
Suggested Readings

Sovereignty, Classroom Racism, and Eating Tea

Well-researched stories from the 19th, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Roundup

Women Nerds!

This Women's History Month, take a minute to bow down to the women of Nerdlandia.
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Suggested Readings

Clever Skeletons, Seal Spies, and Paul Farmer

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian, Knowable, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend an inauguration ceremony for Putin May 7, 2000 in the Kremlin in Moscow.
Syllabus

Russia and the Soviet Union: A Syllabus of Background Readings

These readings from our archive provide context for the developing conflict in Ukraine.
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Suggested Readings

Life in the Cold, New Not-Normals, and Weird Numbers

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A worker stands next to a snow machine making artificial snow outside one of the athletes villages for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics before the area closed to visitors, on January 2, 2022 in Chongli county, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, northern China.
Suggested Readings

Fake Snow, Brain Maps, and Preschool Problems

Well-researched stories from Quanta, Grist, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Unidentified African American soldier in uniform and 10th Corps hat sitting outside shebang
Suggested Readings

Heartbreak, Book Bans, and Killer Whales

Well-researched stories from NPR, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A medieval illustration of a person in bed
Suggested Readings

Sleep Styles, West Elm Caleb, and Plant Relationships

Well-researched stories from Popular Science, Full Stack Economics, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Skeleton of a man, riding the skeleton of a horse
Suggested Readings

Horse People, Malaria History, and Nuclear Waste

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, The Narwhal, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A bowl of soup
Suggested Readings

Uselessness, Fake Soup, and That One Song

Well-researched stories from Psyche, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A puppy sitting on the ground, looking at the camera
Suggested Readings

The Waste Age, E.O. Wilson, and January 6

Well-researched stories from Slate, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Arial view of German industrial area.
Suggested Readings

Death Predictions, Air Pollution, and the Calendar

Well-researched stories from Wired, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Speaking Pictures : Pledge Promotes
Shared Collections

Sobriety is Next to Godliness

Teetotalers in the early British temperance movement signed temperance pledges like those in The Livesey Collection on JSTOR.

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