A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance

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• Rorotoko featured W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s essay presenting Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition (recently named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize).
• An excerpt from Stephanie McCurry’s Women’s War, on the 1868 presidential election as experienced by a Southern white woman, was published at Lapham’s Quarterly.
• Public Books published an in-depth conversation between Bring the War Home author Kathleen Belew and fellow historian and HUP author Monica Muñoz Martinez, author of The Injustice Never Leaves You; Belew also discussed the threat posed by violent white supremacists on Voice of America’s Encounter.
• Cecilia Heyes, author of Cognitive Gadgets, wrote at Aeon about the long controversy over whether the human capacity to imitate observed behavior is inborn or learned.

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April 10: School Is Her Refuge

ref • uge noun A condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, Sally A. Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement…