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The Anatomy of Fake News
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals ...
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Celebrate National Honey Month with an exclusive author event
Get ready to journey to over 80 countries through the unique and sweet world of honey. To celebrate National Honey Month and the upcoming release of The World Atlas of Honey, we’re inviting you to an ...
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As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point
This essay was originally published on The Conversation. Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous ...
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Hearing While Deaf: Beethoven, Helen Keller, and the Ninth Symphony
On the two-hundredth anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which premiered on May 7th, 1824, The New York Times ran an opinion piece on the work by the distinguished pianist and conductor Daniel ...
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Six decades of indie documentary storytelling chronicled in "Kartemquin Films"
This post was originally published by the Center for Media and Social Impact and is shared here with permission. For decades, our own Patricia Aufderheide—who founded this organization’s precursor, ...
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The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
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Divided by the Wall
The construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—whether to build it or not—has become a hot-button issue in contemporary America. A recent impasse over funding a wall caused the longest ...
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Mister Jelly Roll
As far as I know, this was the first recorded biography to be made into a book. Earlier, in my field work, as I had taken down the repertoires of Leadbelly, Molly Jackson, Woody Guthrie and others, ...
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Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I
Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) taught at the Collège de France and was a member of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He is the author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of ...
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Fruit from the Sands
The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia ...
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A Place at the Nayarit
MacArthur Genius Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourished its community of Mexican immigrants with a sense of belonging. In 1951, Doña ...
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Europe and the People Without History
Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, Europe and the People Without History deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called ...