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Women at Work
At colleges and universities, women professors are doing a lot more emotional work on top of teaching and research. Linda Waldron explains how that h…
14 hours ago
Love in the Digital Age
Stumbling into your soulmate while running errands used to be romantic. But Jenny Rosier says this romcom fantasy has gone out of style. She studies …
1 week, 1 day ago
Voices Behind Walls
College classrooms are opening up behind federal prison walls, sparking a massive shift in American higher education. Driven by the return of Pell Gr…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
America After 1619
In late August 1619, twenty or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. They were the first Africans documented i…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Rights to Nature
The James River provides drinking water for 1 in 4 Virginians. But it was once the most polluted river in America. Justin Black and Will Gemma’s two-…
4 weeks ago
Jazz and Civil Rights
The personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane cannot be divorced from the struggle for rac…
1 month ago
Healing from the Holocaust
After liberation, concentration camp survivors were left a shell of themselves - malnourished, diseased, and traumatized. Children who lost their par…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Pursuit of Happiness
What did Jefferson mean by “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”? Adam Potkay explains the moral and philosophical world behind the phrase and…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Counting Plants
Little babies and potted plants: the stationary, the helpless... the hardest working beings in the room. Peter Vishton found that babies and plants p…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mow Lawn, Mo Problems
What if a well-manicured lawn isn’t the end all be all? What if it’s actually harming the local habitat? Doug Tallamy is the co-founder of Home Grown…
2 months ago