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Brian Platzer on the Complex Ties Between Teachers and Students

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How Trotsky and Stalin, Ruthless in Their Own Ways, Absolutely Hated Each Other

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The Very First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

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Proust and the Journey of Self-Discovery

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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

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In Praise of Problematic Women: A Reading List of “Bad” Mothers

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Who Deserves to Be a Citizen?

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James Baldwin‘s Lessons For Black Gay Rights Activists

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Letter From Minnesota: Lessons From Palestine on Surviving Occupation

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All of America’s Colonial Evils at Once: The Early 19th-Century Subjugation of Florida

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This Week in Literary History: The Gutenberg Bible is Published.

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Letter From Minnesota: Lessons From Palestine on Surviving Occupation

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