A general view of a 1970s disco showing people dancing, circa 1978.

What’s the Legacy of Disco Music?

If you listen to Blondie, The Police, or the Pretenders, it’s in the beat.
Artwork from an XBox 360 Minecraft game cover, 2014

Neocolonial Minecraft

One of the world’s best-selling video games, Minecraft conceals problematic assumptions about coloniality and power, argues educator Bennett Brazelton.
Source: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2090/stable/community.31886897

“Lynch Law in America”: Annotated

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose January 1900 essay exposed the racist reasons given by mobs for their crimes, argued that lynch law was an American shame.
Modern machinery is used in salvaging the Abu Simbel Temple as part of the Aswan Dam Project.

An Epic Face-Lift: Moving Abu Simbel Out of the Nile

Some 25,000 workers cut Abu Simbel’s statues and temples into pieces, hoisted them into the air, and reassembled them on an artificial hill 200 meters away.
Sultan Bayezit II

Creating an Ottoman Political Culture

As the Ottoman Empire became a world power in the fifteenth century, it also became a center of culture, producing original political literature and philosophy.
A Java Sparrow

Hard Bites and Slow Songs

How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds.
Source: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2090/stable/community.36531311

Toledo’s Most Singular Pharmacist

The Ella P. Stewart Scrapbooks offer insight into the life and legacy of a pioneering Black woman who broke color barriers and helped birth the fight for civil rights.
The cover of A Passage to India on top of a 1920s map of India

The Sociopolitical Impact of A Passage to India

E. M. Forster’s novel captured not only the tensions between colonizers and colonized but also the fraught internal politics that shaped India’s fight for independence.
Eastern cave of Mummy Cave, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona

Cliff Dwellings, Traffic Deaths, and Disappearing Data

Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A photograph of a red pill in someone's left palm and a blue pill in his right palm

An Age of Fantasy Politics

Tropes from science fiction and fantasy have become fodder for political rhetoric and action on all sides in the twenty-first century.