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Little White Overcoats

by Robert Reid-Pharr
James Baldwin and writerly trust

Gate of Tears

by Nathalie Peutz
Migration and impasse in Djibouti

Good Soldiers?

by Karen Hagemann
Women and the military in World War II

A History of Violence

by Erik Linstrum
Pursuing the ghosts of the British Empire

Someone’s Daughter

by Naghmeh Sohrabi
Recollecting the revolution in Tehran

The Roman Roots of Racial Capitalism

by Nandini Pandey
What an ancient empire can teach us about diversity

Sarah Bernhardt’s Knee

by James N. Green
Feminine "respectability" on the Brazilian stage

Abuse of Authority

by Saira Mohamed
The injury of illegal orders

Artist Portfolio: Amy Kurzweil

Hyper-specific observations in one (or more) panels

Race to the Top

by Mosi Secret
Shaking up the segregated South

Franklin, 1969

Fiction by Ayana Mathis
From the novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Fresh Air

by Susan Bernofsky
Thomas Mann and the literature of contagion

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