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Front Porch Gatherings

December 4, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Front Porch Gatherings

By Zoya Brumberg East Austin has only recently become home to craft cocktail bars, yoga studios, high-end vintage clothing stores, art house movie theaters, and food trucks lauded by the New York Times dining section. For someone new to Austin, unfamiliar with its complex history, it is difficult to imagine that these neighborhoods were intentionally […]

Remembering Lincoln

November 13, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Remembering Lincoln

Do your great-great-great-grandparents remember where they were on the evening of April 14, 1865? Though this may not be a question most of us ask ourselves, it is one that might be answered by exploring the digital archives of the Remembering Lincoln project. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln left a mark not only on […]

Star Parties

October 31, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Star Parties

By Zoya Brumberg The ever-shifting positions of the planets and stars scattered across the night sky have invited the curiosity of their onlookers since the age of antiquity. They have acted as tools of navigation for travelers and as guidance for astrologers. Modern astronomy developed over centuries, searching for clues into the nature of the […]

Sexing History

October 26, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Sexing History

By Zoya Brumberg Some people may not consider history to be the sexiest topic, but for podcast hosts Lauren Gutterman and Gillian Frank, the histories of sex and sexuality are unique keys to understanding both the past and the present. Sexing History brings these lesser-known stories of history to life through short-form podcast storytelling rather […]

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

October 16, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Ajay Singh Chaudhary taught the first course of what would become the country-wide nonprofit interdisciplinary teaching and research institute, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York City in 2012. This single course about Plato and Aristotle, initiated by a recent Columbia University Comparative Literature PhD, has grown into a national organization with active […]

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