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The Rural Cemetery Movement
Join Elizabeth and Sarah as they talk grave iconography, disease epidemics, the commodification of death, and ‘rural’ cemeteries.
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The Bank War: Interview with Paul Kahan
In The Bank War, Paul Kahan explores the struggle between Andrew Jackson and the federal banking system.
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Passing: Race, Disability, and Gender
What do Michael Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt have to do with the debates about the North Carolina bathrooms bill?
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Civil War “Contraband”
We think we know the story of the end of slavery in the United States: Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery with a stroke of his pen, and millions of enslaved men, women and children went forward happily into their new lives as freedpeople. But the reality wasn’t quite so sunny. Read more…