Articles with keyword "popular culture"
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Self-made Man
By Kevin Mahnken
How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.
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The Color of Fashion
By Regina Lee Blaszczyk
How two American women changed the stardards of style and scooped the Paris prognosticators.
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Humanities on the Brain
By James Williford
New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.
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Traveling Man
By Corinne Zeman
Illinois explores the history of the profession shared by L. Frank Baum, Benedict Arnold, and Johnny Appleseed.
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Night Physik
From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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The White Pelican
By Steve Moyer
Laurent Verdin Sr. of Crooked Bayou Blue spent a lifetime carving the birds of his native Louisiana. Most of the thousands he made were functional duck decoys for hunters.
