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New ‘Go for Broke’ stamp honors Japanese American service members in WWII
June 7, 2021For a time, these second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei, were denied the opportunity to fight despite being American citizens.
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‘A Lad’s Love’: New CD sings of an era of suppressed homosexuality
June 4, 2021Brian Giebler is the new tenor on the block, announcing himself in his stunning début CD release as the torch-bearer, with a shock of headcurls, for a new generation of homophile British composers.
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The Paris Commune: ‘In future we will turn the guns on you’
May 28, 2021The Communards, who knew nothing but violence and exploitation, wished for peace and spared their enemy. Yet history necessitates the unequivocal assumption of political power under penalty of defeat.
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Artist Albrecht Dürer, born 1471, champion of the peasant class
May 19, 2021Albrecht Dürer was born 550 years ago, on May 21, 1471, during the Renaissance, a time of upheaval, that rang in the early modern age.
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Mike Gold, ‘Jews Without Money’ author, gets overdue recognition in new bio
May 18, 2021As biographers are wont to do, Patrick Chura exposes the reader to the days of his subject, offering not only facts and analysis, but the ability to see these through Gold’s eyes—to feel the sweat and...
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