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Our post-fact reality

Douglas Flowe: "Political division now constitutes separate realities"

11.20.20 | Read the Story
Alumni

The caretakers of Early Modern religious life

Alumna Amanda Scott recently published the first-ever book about Basque seroras, Early Modern women who held professional roles in the Catholic Church outside of monasteries.

11.11.20 | Read the Story
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Presidential transitions, new traditions

The public transfer of power from one president to the next has played a major role in reconciling political factions and creating solidarity among the populace at large after a contested presidential election. With the Election Day 2020 around the corner — and Inauguration Day a couple months after that — historian Peter Kastor and A&S grad Joey Vettiankal consider the historical precedents and wonder what will come next.

10.14.20 | Read the Story
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Writing the first draft of history

History major Gabriel Rubin, AB ’15, takes Wall Street Journal readers inside the Beltway as the new author of a storied political column.

10.13.20 | Read the Story
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How to become a saint in your lifetime

Mary Andino's research gives voice to women from southern Italy whose relationship to sanctity alarmed the Catholic Church in the early modern period.

9.23.20 | Read the Story
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Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries
3.1.21

Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries

All cooped up: Caste in ‘The White Tiger’
2.23.21

All cooped up: Caste in ‘The White Tiger’

Letter from the chair, January 2021
1.15.21

Letter from the chair, January 2021

Teaching history during COVID
12.16.20

Teaching history during COVID

Douglas Flowe interviewed by the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association blog
11.20.20

Douglas Flowe interviewed by the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association blog

Douglas Flowe writes about police brutality in the Common Reader
11.20.20

Douglas Flowe writes about police brutality in the Common Reader

Our post-fact reality
11.20.20

Our post-fact reality

The caretakers of Early Modern religious life
11.11.20

The caretakers of Early Modern religious life

Anika Walke writes about newly discovered oral histories of Jewish life erased under Soviet rule
10.28.20

Anika Walke writes about newly discovered oral histories of Jewish life erased under Soviet rule

Presidential transitions, new traditions
10.14.20

Presidential transitions, new traditions

Writing the first draft of history
10.13.20

Writing the first draft of history

Presidential illness, past and present -- and the downplaying of it
10.7.20

Presidential illness, past and present -- and the downplaying of it

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