Sorting the News From the Chaff
Veteran journalist and educator Mark Timney shares strategies for evaluating news sources in the rapidly changing digital information age.
A History of the Concept of Race
William Edelglass traces the intellectual history of the concept of race in the West, from its prehistory to today.
Soup to Nuts: An Eccentric History of Food
Rebecca Rupp reveals the rocky evolution of table manners, the not-so-welcome invention of the fork, the awful advent of portable soup, and the surprising benefits of family dinners.
Double-Talk on Doubleday: How a Dead Civil War General Invented Baseball Without His Permission
Norwich University Professor Rowly Brucken explores the founding myths of baseball’s real and fictional origins, and considers the broader context of the age of imperialism in America, New England sports history, and Victorian scandals.
First Impressions: 19th Century New Englanders and the Origins of American Perceptions of Islam
Philip Crossman tells the story of Middlebury College graduates Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons, who set out to the Middle East to serve as Christian missionaries in the Islamic world in 1819.
Solidarity Forever: Songs of Unions and Labor
Using live and recorded music, Mark Greenberg surveys American labor songs from the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, through the Wobblies, and into the coal wars of the 1930.
