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Affordable Housing in New York: A Slideshow
An issue that has reappeared throughout New York City’s history is the challenge of finding affordable, yet high quality housing. Director of Urban Administration program at New York Institute of...
View ArticleIntroducing the mesmerizing new trailer for Mathematics and Art
Looking for a unique coffee table book for someone mathematically or artistically inclined? Mathematics and art are surprisingly similar disciplines, given their distinctively introspective, expressive...
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Six Muslim Students in Jane Austen’s England
A true antidote for the tenor of recent discourse, this is the most welcome of stories about the Middle East and the West: one of friendships. Nile Green, Professor of History at UCLA, chronicles the...
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Authors Matthew Gordon Lasner and Nicholas Dagen Bloom on the urban housing...
The Great Housing Squeeze by Matthew Gordon Lasner and Nicholas Dagen Bloom 4.16. Bell Park Gardens, Queens, ca 1949, courtesy Joe Lapal. As American cities, especially along the coasts, have become...
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The Digital Einstein Papers: An Open Access Story
A year ago in December, Princeton University Press rolled out an unprecedented open access initiative: the ongoing publication of Einstein’s massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000 unique...
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Emma’s Muslim Counterpart
A Lost Persian Diary from Jane Austen’s England by Nile Green December 2015 marks the two hundred year anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma. As symbolized in Lord Byron’s introduction...
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New History Catalog
Our History 2016 catalog is now available. In The End of American Childhood, Paula S. Fass describes the history of childhood and parenting in the United States, and the shift that has recently taken...
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Philosopher Jason Stanley on Donald Trump and mass incarceration
Donald Trump and Mass Incarceration by Jason Stanley Donald Trump’s support is in large part due to the fact that he gives explicit voice to ideologies that are outside the bounds of public...
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What should the presidential candidates be reading? WSJ: Robert Gordon’s book
According to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, “Every presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the...
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How Texas law will shape the women’s vote
The Explosive Potential of the Whole Woman’s Health Case by Nancy Woloch On March 2 the Supreme Court will hear arguments about a 2013 Texas law that affects access to abortion. The law at issue in...
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Adrienne Mayor busts five myths about Amazon warrior women
Contrary to popular belief, the Amazons were not “man-haters” who gave up their motherhood to be warriors. While many throughout history have considered these women to be figments of Greek...
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Ellen Wu on Nikki Haley and the role of the model minority
Nikki Haley and the American Dream by Ellen D. Wu Poised and polished, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley at once personified and celebrated the American Dream as she rebutted President Obama’s final...
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