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Volume II

By Rachel Wydra Santiago, who goes by “Santi,” is seven. He has recently learned the phrase “Come on!”. It is a useful English phrase for […]

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By Jacob Bruggeman Why do we travel? Temporarily transporting ourselves to foreign places, regardless of how far removed from home they may be, is both […]

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Construction Workers with Cement Mixer on High Street, Oxford, OH, 1916. By Sophia Szeles   Most of America transformed greatly during the Gilded Age due […]

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By Kaylie Schunk What is the cost of adventure? Many sojourned west for opportunity and for the supposed right to harness uncultivated lands and resources. […]

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By Kevin O’Hara The Duchess of Marlborough, circa 1903. “It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they […]

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By Santiago Martinez Louis Dairymple. “School Begins.” Puck. (Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York: 1899). Two cartoons from different magazines published in New York, New York in […]

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By Abbie Coogle Stepping through the doorway of the McGuffey house on campus, a strange sense of nostalgia washes over me. I’m not sure whether […]

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