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Inez Baranay’s Soul Climate offers a thoughtful and expansive reimagining of India’s freedom struggle through an unfamiliar yet deeply compelling lens. Set in the 1930s, the novel draws inspiration ...

Nate Krieger is a video producer at Vox. In the 1930s, a radical conservative faction almost pushed Finland into full authoritarianism. Called the Lapua movement, it was a far-right group of Finns who ...

New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot further than the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Meng Zhang, a Wellcome Trust ...

If you have a niche dream of owning a pre-war automobile as a daily driver, you've likely been scoffed at. A whole lot of enthusiasts look upon cars built before World War II as unreliable and ...

Michael Fischer’s recent book, How Books Can Save Democracy, is a worthwhile and timely short read for psychiatrists, therapists, and the general public. Fischer is the Dicke Professor in Public ...

Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) likened Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations to the “1930s in Germany” a week after a woman was fatally shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis. “Do you ...

As guest editor for the latest issue of Symposium (Syracuse University), Professor Chrystian Zegarra leads a critical examination of how avant-garde Latin American literature integrated visual ...

In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his attention.

Sylvan Goldman, a businessman and Oklahoma native, was working for a California grocery wholesaler after World War I when he became fascinated by the new “supermarkets” that put everything under one ...

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