The Vanishing Black Woman Spy Reappears
What a newly discovered letter from “Mary Bowser,” a slave turned Civil War spy, reveals about race in postbellum America....
What a newly discovered letter from “Mary Bowser,” a slave turned Civil War spy, reveals about race in postbellum America....
There is an equally heartbreaking loss of another young doctor in Paul Kalanithi’s book, one especially troubling because it received almost no commentary....
Poster from Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst, 1929) ONCE UPON A TIME, women's lives might have been fodder for fairy tales, but they weren't considered the stuff of serious scholarship. That changed when affirmative action made higher ...