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Eugène Hénard, ‘The Cities of The Future’, published in American City, January 1911. By Jacob Bruggeman The human era—the Anthropocene—continues to alter the Earth through […]

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The official pamphlet of the American Exhibition in Moscow. By Matthew Kline The Cold War was a strategic and ideological battle between the superpowers of […]

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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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Honors students enrolled in Dr. Stephen Norris’s Russian Revolution class transformed the Upham Room in Upham Hall into a propaganda room.  Half of the students, […]

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