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In 2017 a new musical about the life of Louis Braille, The Braille Legacy, opened in London. The show was widely criticised for its flagrant inaccessibility: of the 90 performances, only two were Audio...
‘American soldiers in Cap Haitien, Haiti, during Operation Uphold Democracy in October 1994.’ Image credit: US National Archives (NARA). In late 1999, the United States Army found itself confronted...
What can theater teach us about war? How did war influence theatrical practices in eighteenth-century France and its empire? What do military-theatrical projects reveal about the scope and goals...
In spring 1533, a ninety-year-old widow named Avice Willes compiled a petition setting out various grievances she held against her neighbours. Owing to her ‘debilitation, weakness, and innocency’,...
This illustration appeared at the start of the serialisation of Thomas Hardy’s “A Few Crusted Characters” (then called “Wessex Folk”); afterwards collected into the volume of Life’s Little...
When Angela Davis called attention to the fascist tendencies in the United States that threatened American democracy during a 2016 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, some in the mainstream media...
How do we learn to listen? Like most worthwhile things, listening well takes time, practice, and perseverance. While it might seem like good music ought to reveal its fruits intuitively to...
View of the Plaza Mayor in Lima with stalls under the arcades. Illustration by Ignacio Merino. Esteban Terralla y Landa, Lima por dentro y fuera, Paris: Librería Española A. Mézin, 1854. S25/1263....
The Middle Ages is a story modernity tells about itself. Ideas of rebirth, or of an “enlightened” modern age, or of a supposed rejection of primitive superstition in favor of rational thinking,...
The topic of catechesis, or baptismal instruction, remains a relatively understudied area of research outside a few highly specialized subdisciplines in early Christian studies. It’s primarily of interest...
Open-minded citizens who are concerned about the potential impact of global warming on their lives, and on those of their children, are bombarded with wildly discordant information and recommendations....
The “age of revolutions” was a global era. Around the world between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new states and empires supplanted old regimes. The implications of those...
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