August 14, 2018
Making Monuments What They Ought to Be
A preface to the new edition of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves.
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August 14, 2018
A preface to the new edition of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves.
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Imagining book recommendations from a life of letters.
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Overworked librarians, bog bodies, and the impossibility of making a dictionary.
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The author of Devil’s Mile looks at a changing urban landscape.
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The first Australian engineers and how history almost overlooked them.
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The amazing life of the doctor called to perform at the Hamilton-Burr duel.
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Getting to know the New York City street mayors of the turn of the century.
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.