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The American Language: A Historical Database of English in the U.S.
Robert Frost is reported to have said, “The difference between a job and a career is the difference between 40 and 60 hours a week.” While this bon mot has the advantage of being admirably succinct, it...
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The Devastation of 1918: Finding Pockets of Hope in the Great Flu Pandemic
On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the entire Port of New York City under quarantine. As health commissioner, he needed a way to keep what looked to be a nasty influenza from infiltrating...
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The First Americans
In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13,000 to...
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Grad School’s Mental Health Problem
Pop wisdom says you’d have to be a lunatic to spend six years earning a humanities Ph.D. given contracting faculty budgets and a concomitant expansion of ill-paid lectureships. Leaving aside this...
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