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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

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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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Review: "The Accidental Investment Banker"

Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street, by Jonathan A. Knee

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Review: "Rough Crossings"

Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution, by Simon Schama

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Copland's Party Music

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Shadowing Shakespeare

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Beauty and Artiste

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Deutschland After All

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Grand Central to All Points

The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore, by Peter Pennoyer '80CC, '84APP and Anne Walker '00APP

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Mixed-up Media

Letters to a Young Journalist, by Samuel G. Freedman

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Whitman Sampler (& Dickinson, Poe, et al.)

The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman

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Fidel's Man in Manhattan

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma

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In Denial

Buried by The Times:The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff

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Whites and Wrongs

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson

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