In The Jazz Men, historian Larry Tye recounts how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transcended music itself to change American culture forever.
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Dr. Michael Stein, from the School of Public Health at Boston University takes stock of what we got right, how we failed, and how we can better model our response when the next pandemic—inevitably—strikes.
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As companies linked to private equity and foreign investment have taken over many New England fishing businesses, a day boat captain and his wife tell us how they took it back.
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Toby Lloyd talks about his new novel in which a Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter has become possessed by the soul of a sonderkommando.
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Historian Joyce Lee Malcom unearths the brutal ways in which the American Revolution set friends, neighbors, and families to war against each other.
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The long struggle for reproductive rights was waged against the church, the government, and the patriarchy but also included a bitter battle between feminists.
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Philip Gefter on the history of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the play that blew the doors off our cultural expectations and changed Broadway and Hollywood forever.
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Seemingly part bear, part bird, part monkey, and part lizard the astonishing work of beavers creates new habitats, mitigates flooding, purifies water, and restores damaged environments.
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Urine is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus and has been used for generations to help plants grow. So why are flushing it into the water table?
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