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Journal of American Studies

Obscenity and Unintended Consequences

In the Journal of American Studies, Amanda Frisken investigated how an earlier set of standards around obscenity emerged in the 1870s.

Excerpt of letter from Alexander Murdock detailing the geography of the Battle of Gettysburg

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Finding Your Place in Letters

For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.

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The Trouble with Reentry

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A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.

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Tyler S. Sprague on the Intersection of Structure and Design

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Arts & Culture

12 Poems by Frank O’Hara

Plus his manifesto on Personism and writings about O’Hara by Ted Berrigan, Joseph LeSueur, and Joe Brainard.

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How to be a Modern Autocrat

In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”

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