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Interview Eric H. Cline on Digging Up Armageddon
June 09, 2020
In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo—Armageddon in the New Testament—which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon.
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Essay Why protests matter in American democracy
June 02, 2020
As protests continue nationwide in honor of George Floyd and to express outrage with systemic racism, it remains to be seen how the current civil unrest will shape democracy long term, and impact voting in the fall.
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Essay Mysteries of the first mastodon
May 29, 2020
Bones from the last ice age might be standard for a natural history conservator, but it’s not the norm at an art museum.
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Interview Emily Sigalow on American JewBu
May 27, 2020
May is Jewish American Heritage month, and it is worth noting that today, many Jewish Americans are embracing a dual religious identity, for instance, practicing Buddhism while also staying connected to their Jewish roots.
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Essay The Humboldt connection between nature and American art
May 21, 2020
An exhibition titled Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture will be shown at the Smithsonian American Art Museum located at 8th & F Streets NW in Washington, DC, opening in 2020.
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Essay Robert DiYanni and Anton Borst on The Craft of College Teaching
May 19, 2020
Teaching is more than a job or a career; it is a profession and a calling. It is a craft that can be mastered over time with practice and persistence.
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Interview Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn on Einstein on Einstein
May 18, 2020
At the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers. The resulting book was his uniquely personal Autobiographical Notes, a classic work in the history of science that explains the development of his ideas with unmatched warmth and clarity.
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Interview By Design | The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
May 17, 2020
In a ceremony at the Library of Congress on May 17, 1950, President Harry S. Truman accepted the first volume of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, an ambitious project that would span multiple decades and vastly different modes of production.
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Interview Forrest Stuart on Ballad of the Bullet
May 14, 2020
Amid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they’re capitalizing on the public’s fascination with the ghetto and gang violence.
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Essay From Jack-in-the-pulpit to Featherfoil: An appreciation of wildflower names
May 13, 2020
Although every plant species known to science has an official scientific name, it is their common names that most people use when speaking of local wildflowers.
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Essay Escape from quarantine
May 12, 2020
Like many professional intellectuals, books were my original escape. I was a strange child with abrasive manners, and real life was lonely and chaotic. I read ceaselessly, anything I could get my hands on.
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Interview Making motherhood work in the age of COVID-19
May 08, 2020
This Mother’s Day weekend, Christie Henry, Director of 91ÌÒÉ« talks with Caitlyn Collins about ‘Making Motherhood Work’ in the age of COVID‑19.
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Interview J. David Velleman on On Being Me
May 06, 2020
We’ve all had to puzzle over such profound matters as birth, death, regret, free will, agency, and love. How might philosophy help us think through these vital concerns?
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Essay Cicero, friendship, and social distancing
May 04, 2020
The best friend of the Roman politician Marcus Cicero was Titus Pomponius, also known as Atticus since he spent many years living in Athens to escape the political chaos and partisan bickering of republican Rome.
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Essay How to drink
(at home)
April 30, 2020
Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498–1539) thought so.


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