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Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting
Oct 28 2024
In this video Senior Production Editors Emily Park and Julie Van Pelt talk about the first step in doing that: copyediting, specifically book copyediting. They discuss what it is, what you can expect, and how you and your copyeditor will work together.
Read MoreHow California’s Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand
Oct 23 2024
Many of us are now familiar with Dr. Bronner’s. Yet behind this now popular brand lays a larger story of California as an important site for reconceptualizing communities of belief and belonging.
Read MoreHousing discrimination is a public health disaster — and we need widespread social mobilization to fix it
Oct 21 2024
Residential racial segregation is both an economic injustice and a public health hazard. My new book contends that housing insecurity and its health consequences make up key components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order.
Read MoreCelebrating the 150th Anniversary of Charles Ives's Birth
Oct 20 2024
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives's birth, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles about the composer.
Read MoreNative land claims and culture are inseparable
Oct 18 2024
I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands and livelihoods slip away as settlers came to the territory in search of resources.
Read MoreTen Facts about Fearless Writer Sanora Babb
Oct 17 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb," shares 10 intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature who was silenced by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
Read MoreFinding hope in a precarious place
Oct 17 2024
While rising insurance rates in New Orleans reflect the challenges of engineering away from danger, we are drawn to something more powerful than a hurricane: a fierce cultural persistence for breaking bread in the ruins.
Read MoreMichael Finewood and Michelle Luebke on Environmental Justice and the Bronx River Watershed
Oct 16 2024
Environmental injustice has become much more visible in recent years, thankfully, and people are looking for ways to incorporate environmental justice frameworks more explicitly into their research and teaching.
Read MoreInterview with Emrah Yildiz, author of "Zainab's Traffic"
Oct 16 2024
Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.
Read MoreFiresign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique
Oct 15 2024
Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s. Jeremy Braddock explores their legacy.
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