Tag: Humanities
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today’s idea of a nature-positive...
Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University
Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma...
How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history
Adam Clulow, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Imagine you’re a young samurai in Japan...
How one man fought South Carolina Democrats to end whites-only primaries...
Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina
A rusting chain-link fence represents a “color line” for the dead in Columbia, South Carolina. In Randolph Cemetery,...
We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
Are we all trapped in a live-action version of Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”?
The Jan. 3 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was...
Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse...
Jared Orsi, Colorado State University
A few hundred yards from the Mexican border in southern Arizona lies a quiet pond, about the size of two...
Deaf Christians often struggle to hear God’s word, but some find...
Jana Bennett, University of Dayton
For years, my husband would say after we returned from the church, “I thought the sermon was good.” To that,...
Deaf Christians often struggle to hear God’s word, but some find...
Jana Bennett, University of Dayton
For years, my husband would say after we returned from the church, “I thought the sermon was good.” To that,...
In impeachment spotlight, dueling views of professionalism appear
Michael J. Brown, Rochester Institute of Technology
Impeachment hearings have thrust a handful of public servants into the spotlight, where competing ideas about government professionals...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists...
Chantal Nguyen, University of Colorado Boulder
Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see...
