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April 5, 2019A few years ago, as journalist Clive Thompson started working on his new book about the world of coding and coders, he went to see the musical Hamilton. His take-away? The...
February 12, 2019In July 1848, as hundreds of women suffragists gathered in Seneca Falls to demand the right to vote and assert their right to participate in the public sphere, one prominent woman in...
February 1, 2019Picture a map of the United States and what do you see? From the two coasts that frame the mental snapshot up to the friendly mitten of Michigan and down to the staggered edge of...
January 9, 2019Mere days before the Declaration of Independence was signed in July 1776, 20,000 spectators gathered in a field where Manhattan's modern-day Chinatown lies. All together, soldiers...
