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Star Trek, Vampires, and Others: A Conversation with Benjamin Brower
By Danielle Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Colorado College Featured image by Lydia Hussain CONTENT WARNING: This article contains references to suicide which may be upsetting to some people. During the first iteration of my Star Wars course in fall 2020, I assigned an excerpt of Ben Brower’s A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire…Read…
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Rebelling Stagnation: Drug Addiction and the Gentleman-Genius in Sherlock Holmes
By Jamie Clark, Graduate Student, History Department, New York University Featured image by Sam Nystrom Costales Sherlock Holmes, the beloved consulting detective borne from the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late-19th century, recently returned to widespread and fevered fame through the 2011 BBC adaptation Sherlock. In many ways, Holmes was a walking…Read…
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The Man in the Airplane Was Looking For You: Nirvana, Superchunk’s No Pocky for Kitty, and 1990s Alternative Music Culture
By Michael H. Carriere, Professor of History, Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) Featured image by Sam Nystrom Costales CONTENT WARNING: This article contains graphic information about suicide which may be upsetting to some people. By the early twenty-first century, it had become accepted wisdom among cultural critics and music journalists alike that Nevermind, the second…Read…
