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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
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
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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A Pitch Perfect Match
An excerpt from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks
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French Preoccupation
An excerpt from Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination, by Robert O. Paxton
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Review: "Conquering Gotham — A Gilded Age Epic"
The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels, by Jill Jonnes '77JRN
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Review: "Life on the Lower East Side"
Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937–1950, text by Peter E. Dans '61PS and Suzanne Wasserman
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Review: "Pigeons"
The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN
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Review: "American Movie Critics"
An Anthology from the Silents Until Now, edited by Phillip Lopate '64CC