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Cover: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, by Bernard Bailyn, from Harvard University Press

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Cover: China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition, by John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, from Harvard University Press

China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman

Cover: In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, by Carol Gilligan, from Harvard University Press

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development

Cover: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness, by Paul Gilroy, from Harvard University Press

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Cover: Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, from Harvard University Press

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Cover: A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition, by John Rawls, from Harvard University Press

A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition

Cover: A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor, from Harvard University Press

Cover: The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, by Helen Vendler, from Harvard University Press

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Cover: On Human Nature: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface, by Edward O. Wilson, from Harvard University Press

On Human Nature: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

Edward O. Wilson

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Cover: Odyssey, Volume I: Books 1–12, by Homer, translated by A. T. Murray, and revised by George E. Dimock, from Harvard University Press

Odyssey, Volume I: Books 1–12

Homer, translated by A. T. Murray, and revised by George E. Dimock

Cover: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1–6, by Virgil, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold, from Harvard University Press

Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1–6

Virgil, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold

Cover: Famous Women, by Giovanni Boccaccio, edited and translated by Virginia Brown, from Harvard University Press

Giovanni Boccaccio, edited and translated by Virginia Brown

Cover: The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and <i>The Fight at Finnsburg</i>, edited and translated by R. D. Fulk, from Harvard University Press

The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg

Edited and translated by R. D. Fulk

Cover: The Vulgate Bible, Volume I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation, edited by Swift Edgar, from Harvard University Press

The Vulgate Bible, Volume I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation

Edited by Swift Edgar

Cover: Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women, translated by Charles Hallisey, from Harvard University Press

Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women

Translated by Charles Hallisey

Cover: Six Drawing Lessons, by William Kentridge, from Harvard University Press

Six Drawing Lessons

William Kentridge

Cover: One Writer’s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty, from Harvard University Press

One Writer’s Beginnings

Cover: No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface, by Sean Wilentz, from Harvard University Press

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface

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National Epidemics, Then and Now

Our current COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first time this nation has faced an epidemic. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, tells about the yellow fever outbreak that our country faced in its capital during its early years—and how our first president responded. American responses to the 1793 outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia and the 2020 COVID-…

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