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
...of Indigenous history while also contributing to the birth of modern cities. This so-called Pitch Lake has a long and storied history, summarized in Megan Gannon’s 2018 piece in Archaeology...
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...
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
...of authority: Molly’s Mike is a cop; Megan’s love interest in Bridesmaids is an air marshall; in Spy, Susan has a crush on a secret agent. Like past Bridgets, McCarthy’s...
Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts
...and decreased (ideological and affective) political polarization. Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso, Megan C. Haggard, Jordan P. LaBouff, and Wade C. Rowatt, “Links between Intellectual Humility and Acquiring Knowledge,” The Journal of...
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...