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Late-nineteenth-century dresses from the French couturiers Maison Lévilion (left) and House of Worth
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The Fashionable Legacy of the Gilded Age

Elizabeth L. Block ’04GSAS recently published Gilded Age Fashion, a book showcasing over fifty dresses and accessories from the late 1800s     

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

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A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities

In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Mysterious Death of Zac Brettler

In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames

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"Toward Los Angeles" by Dorothea Lange, March 1937
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Review: "The Likes of Us"

America in the Eyes of the Farm Security Administration, by Stu Cohen

Cover of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" by Morris Dickstein
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Review: "Dancing in the Dark"

A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein '61CC

Illustration of Kim Jong Ill by David Brinley
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Northern Exposure

North Korea has sealed itself off from the world, but cracks are beginning to show. What does it all mean — and what should the U.S. do next?

Cover of Amateur Barbarians by Robert Cohen, with photo of a lion on couch
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Book Review: "Amateur Barbarians"

By Robert Cohen '83SOA

Cover of "Great Negotiations" by Frederik Stanton, with photo of Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev
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Book Review: "Great Negotiations"

Agreements that Changed the Modern World, by Frederik Stanton '96CC

Cover of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn
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A Rose for Emily

An interview with Jerome Charyn ’59CC, author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel

Columbia students stage a mock book burning in 1936 to protest Nicholas Murray Butler's decision to send a delegate to the University of Heidelberg's 550th anniversary celebration
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Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"

Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen H. Norwood '84GSAS

Henry Luce in 1937 with Columbia law professor, Newsweek columnist, and disillusioned Brain Truster Raymond Moley
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Book Review: "The Publisher"

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

Liu Liu
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Book Review: "Sound Kapital"

Beijing’s Music Underground. By photographer Matthew Niederhauser ’05CC

"No Enchanted Palace" by Mark Mazower
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Book Review: "No Enchanted Palace"

The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower

"Wrestling with Moses" by Anthony Flint
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Book Review: "Wrestling with Moses"

How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. By Anthony Flint '85JRN

Arthur Koestler
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Book Review: "Koestler"

The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell '85GSAS

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