Mad Men and Its Obsession with Frenchness
The AMC series Mad Men ended ten years ago, but a scene from season 5, episode 1 still remains viral (and a meme) to this day. It features Megan Draper...
La Brea and Beyond
...modern cities. This so-called Pitch Lake has a long and storied history, summarized in Megan Gannon’s 2018 piece in Archaeology Magazine. In 1595, English colonist and captain Sir Walter Raleigh...
How Mail Delivery Has Shaped America
...a high-ranking federal position, showing the postal service’s important influence on the country’s operations. Only one postmaster general—the 74th—has not been a white man: Megan Brennan was the first woman...
Thanksgiving Stories
...2018 Startups worldwide convert refuse into energy, biomaterials, and more food. Meat and Potatoes: The Reminiscences of Alonzo Davis Megan Kate Nelson December 5, 2014 In April 1863, the men...
Rickshaw Men, Optical Computing, and Telegraph Flirting
...the Nineteenth Century (Slate) by Megan Ward Long before the invention of flirty AI assistants, Americans developed intense relationships with disembodied people who might or might not be real, thanks...
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...
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...