From Saint to Stereotype: A Story of Brigid
...in a racist and unsettling history. Like past Bridgets, McCarthy’s characters often flirt with or pine after men in positions of authority: Molly’s Mike is a cop; Megan’s love interest...
Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts
...Megan C. Haggard, Jordan P. LaBouff, and Wade C. Rowatt, “Links between Intellectual Humility and Acquiring Knowledge,” The Journal of Positive Psychology 15, no. 2 (March 2020):155–70. Another area that...
Thanksgiving Stories
...Time to Reinvent Food Waste! Lori Miller Kase November 13, 2018 Startups worldwide convert refuse into energy, biomaterials, and more food. Meat and Potatoes: The Reminiscences of Alonzo Davis Megan...
Book Thieves Take the Story and Run with It
...special collections librarian Travis McDade reports to Megan Cottrell for American Libraries magazine that “[i]t’s a crime about one day less old than libraries themselves.” Today, libraries of all sizes...
The Shakespeare of English Furniture?
...V&A apotheosis in stone is fitting, since Chippendale, the “Shakespeare of English Furniture,” is still one of he most recognizable names in the history of furniture-making. As scholar Megan Aldrich...
Controversy and Conjugal Visits
...visitors. Writing about San Quentin State Prison in California in the early 2000s, the ethnographer Megan L. Comfort described a common hierarchy of visits, each with its own allowable “degree...
Plant of the Month: Hops
...left by Prohibition. Soon, growers residing in Oregon would allege that the region was the “Hop Center of the World,” spanning 34,000 acres by the 1930s. This industry, as Megan...
Cloud Seeding, Fake Fact-Checks, and Angela Davis at 78
...bird calls, edible wild plants, and herbal remedies. Don’t fear the Jorō spiders (CNN) by Megan Marples Yes, huge, brightly colored invasive arachnids may be spreading to new parts of...
Introducing “Archives Unbound”
...staff intervention. We began a large, speedy, cataloging project, led by my colleague Megan McNiff, to get many of the pamphlets written by and about African Americans identified and in...
The Return of the Hidden Hero
...all the king’s men and all the king’s horses are also slumbering with him. Scholar Megan L. Morris explores how Arthur was “recalled to life” in nineteenth-century England to serve...