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Contributors, Issue 1

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:17:34 UT

Tags: barann, brownstein, crow, d'arezzo, foster, warner, wechsler

Number 1

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:55:27 UT

Travelogue

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:09:45 UT

Photographs by Carrie Crow.

Tags: crow, Paris

Colonial Cartography: Commerce, Careers and Christianity

Christopher Ian Foster — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:07:45 UT

A commentary on cartography, from Captain James Cook's voyages to the cruise ships that ply the same waters: how maps impose meaning on the world.

Tags: Charles Darwin, Christopher Ian Foster, James Cook, mapping, Robert Thomson, Vincent Van Gogh

And Big Brown Eyes to Die For

Daniel D'Arezzo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:17:42 UT

The beauty, grace, speed, strength, mythic proportions and historical importance of horses.

Tags: American Museum of Natural History, Daniel D'Arezzo

How Can Scientific Achievement Be Forced?: Unexpected Lessons from the Soviet Union

William Warner — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:11:23 UT

Tags: science, soviet union, william warner

Black Themes and Black Actors in the Films of the ’50s

Robert Wechsler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:03:28 UT

In 1942, the head of the NAACP convoked a meeting of studio heads to ask that the Negro be depicted in movies as "a normal human being and integral part of human life." His modest request that blacks be viewed as normal invoked an epiphany in some of his luncheon guests.

Tags: black actors, civil rights, Robert Wechsler

Where Have All the War Poems Gone?

Daniel D'Arezzo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:00:13 UT

The U.S. has been at war for nearly seven years, yet we see few poems in our most distinguished magazines about either the war in Afghanistan or Iraq. Why?

Tags: Daniel D'Arezzo, poems, war

Life Writing: A New MALS Track

Rachel M. Brownstein — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:39:23 UT

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program (MALS) began offering a new “track” or area of concentration, “Biography, Autobiography and Memoir,” in the fall of 2008.

Tags: biography, mals, memoir, rachel brownstein