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SARAH IFFT DECKER | The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France...

CIAHNAN DARRELL | When I was twenty years old, I was attacked by a group of people outside a nightclub...

CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...

SARAH E. ROLLENS | At the Temple Gates takes its title from the location where numerous philosophers and religious specialists gathered...

JONATHON LOOKADOO | Historical facts and obscure trivia provide excellent material for pub quizzes...

A.M. JUSTER | French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of Moliére and Racine to the exclusion of later French writers...

LIANA CHUA | Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed...

MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...

ADHAAR NOOR DESAI | I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very funny when they read his plays, even after they’ve grown...

STEVEN ZHOU | On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street...

ED SIMON | Chidiock Tichborne, of unlikely name but aristocratic birth, spent the evening of September 19, 1586, in the Tower of London...

STEPHEN S. BUSH | Nick Cave has said that in Until, his massive, elaborate, and provocative installation at MASS MoCA, he intends to pose...