June 24, 2021
Aim at a Happy Mean
Debating the age at which the orator should first plead.
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A Mother’s Influence
How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.