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Gender Studies
September 2, 2020
Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet
Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi
John F. Marszalek III
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Christopher Babits
In Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), John F. Marszalek III shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural …
Medicine
August 6, 2020
Contraception
A Concise History
Donna Drucker
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Christopher Babits
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical …
General History
August 5, 2020
Brain Magnet
Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
Alex Sayf Cummings
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Christopher Babits
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham …
General History
July 29, 2020
Newest Born of Nations
European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy
Ann Tucker
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Christopher Babits
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern …
American Studies
June 18, 2020
Family Matters
James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home
Hilde Løvdal Stephens
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Christopher Babits
Dr. Hilde Løvdal Stephens is a Visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her first book is titled Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the …
Christian Studies
June 9, 2020
To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
Lauren Turek
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Christopher Babits
Lauren Turek is an Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her doctorate from the University of Virginia in 2015 and holds a degree …
Gender Studies
June 9, 2020
Tabernacles of Clay
Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Taylor Petrey
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Christopher Babits
Taylor Petrey is an Associate Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College and the Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. His latest book is Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and …
American Studies
May 7, 2020
City on a Hill
A History of American Exceptionalism
Abram Van Engen
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Christopher Babits
Abram Van Engen is an Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Van Engen’s research examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and …
General History
April 2, 2020
Kingdom of Nauvoo
The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Benjamin E. Park
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Christopher Babits
In Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (W. W. Norton, 2020), Benjamin E. Park, an assistant professor at Sam Houston State …
General History
December 5, 2019
Bodies in Blue
Disability in the Civil War North
Sarah Handley-Cousins
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Christopher Babits
All wars, in a practical sense, center on the destruction of the human body, and in Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (University of Georgia Press, 2019) …