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Coming Up Close to Homelessness

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who…

Jun 23, 2021

Coming Up Close to Homelessness

Jun 23, 2021

Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider’s view on the violent confrontations in…

Jun 23, 2021

Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate

Jun 23, 2021

Opportunism, Resistance, Folly: Our Complicated Relationship With Weeds

Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina…

Jun 23, 2021

Opportunism, Resistance, Folly: Our Complicated Relationship With Weeds

Jun 23, 2021

The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City’s struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and…

Jun 23, 2021

The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City

Jun 23, 2021

Notes From the Field

John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us…

Jun 23, 2021

Notes From the Field

Jun 23, 2021

How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions

In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of “social innovation moments” in American history. Through these moments —…

Jun 14, 2021

How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions

Jun 14, 2021

Life With Severe Autism

In this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience — the positive and the negative — as a…

Jun 14, 2021

Life With Severe Autism

Jun 14, 2021

Today’s Legal Issues through the lens of Hamilton the Musical

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who…

May 7, 2021

Today’s Legal Issues through the lens of Hamilton the Musical

May 7, 2021

A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York

On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the…

Apr 23, 2021

A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York

Apr 23, 2021

How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World

Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil…

Apr 9, 2021

How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World

Apr 9, 2021

The Excerpt—Cornell University Press

The Excerpt—Cornell University Press

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