1861 Review: First Battle of Bull Run Adam Goodheart, author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening, talked about the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas, held July 21, 1861. He talked about how the battle changed public perceptions of the war. He was interviewed at a portrait of General Winfield Scott in a Civil War exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Jan Chipchase set out to write a guide to his esoteric field research. Instead, it’s become a $110 self-help manual for the digitally disaffected.
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Most schools looks pretty bland, with safe homogeneous colors and uninspired designs, but one hundred graffiti artists have just turned the boring walls of a dormitory in Paris into a stunning celebration of art and creativity.
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Thirty years ago, many academics considered the study of popular culture beneath them. Stuart Hall helped change that.
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Finn Murphy’s “The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road” is an occupational memoir with an untold human story at its center. By Joshua Rothman.
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Why seek out examples of representation in art and culture for my kids as if their lives and identities depend on it? Because I’m convinced they might. By Nicole Chung.
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In Colorado, the President’s tone has started rubbing off on residents. By Peter Hessler.
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The eighth-century documents were stored in tiny pagodas.
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James Thomas Snyder celebrates Rebecca West’s classic “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.”
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