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Remembering Emmett Till in Song - JSTOR Daily
The murder of Emmett Till has been memorialized in song by such artists as Langston Hughes and Bob Dylan.
The Female Husband is So Eighteenth Century - JSTOR Daily
Henry Fielding’s novel, a fictional account of the life of Charles Hamilton, conflates vagrancy with sexual, gender, and religious deviance.
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Black Soldier Desertion in the Civil War - JSTOR Daily
The reasons Black Union soldiers left their army during the Civil war were varied, with poor pay, family needs and racism among them.
Grifting In The 18th Century: The Grift Remains the Same - JSTOR Daily
When faking an identity, it helps to choose something foreign to your audience.
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart? - JSTOR Daily
Broken heart syndrome, or Takotsubo syndrome, is thought to be caused by stress. It seems to be on the increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fact-Based Courts, but What Facts? - JSTOR Daily
US courts operate as “informationally disabled” institutions that may lack (or intentionally exclude) important facts when making complex legal decisions.
When Harvard Students Couldn’t Get Warm - JSTOR Daily
The early heating systems of New England kept Harvard students cold until the early twentieth century.
Jim Crow’s Civil Defense Plans - JSTOR Daily
The first head of the Federal Civil Defense Administration planned on maintaining segregation in bomb shelters, and in the post-nuclear future.
Canopy Gaps Define Growth in the Forest - JSTOR Daily
Gaps in the forest canopy can reveal important information, and result in regeneration.
Donald Goines, Detroit’s Crime Writer Par Excellence - JSTOR Daily
The writer used hard-boiled fiction as a wide lens to accurately capture the widescreen disparity of Black life in the 1970s.
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