November 2011
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Mapping Home by Alexsandar Hemon →
Returning to Sarajevo after the Bosnian War
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Letters of Resignation from the American Dream →
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Historian Hunts for Motives Behind Climate Change... →
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About Pepper Spray -- Scientific American →
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You Guys! - Lingua Franca →
Colonial America often celebrated Guy Fawkes Day as vigorously as England. But with independence came opposition to the anti-Catholic character of the celebration as well as indifference to the historical Guy Fawkes. By the mid-19th century, in American English, guy came to have a more neutral meaning, first a strange-looking straw effigy, then a strange-looking man, then just any man, a guy. And...
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What Would Emma Do? →
Interview with Vivian Gornick, author of “Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life.”
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A Joke from God →
n+1 Interviews Helen DeWitt
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Postal History by James W. Loewen →
Teaching history with deliberate omissions
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Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup... →
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Birth Control in the Cabinet: Planned Parenthood... →
Planned Parenthood has a long and tangled and controversial history. It stretches back nearly a century. Its history can’t be Googled.
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A Culinary Education →
Adventures in learning to cook, kooky grandparents, cake mix.