The Conversation

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

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

Colonial Cartography: Commerce, Careers and Christianity
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. 

Life Writing: A New MALS Track
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.

Travelogue
Photographs by Carrie Crow.