by A.M. Genova | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
“Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii”: Replication and the Art of the Senses “Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii” is a marble sculpture designed by Randolph Rogers [1825–1892], and reproduced in two sizes for 167 copies. “Nydia” portrays how narratives can...
by Ethan Wedel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Commentary on Ode 1.37 by Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC), known to the anglophone world as Horace, was a Roman lyric poet. Published between 23 BC and 13 BC, his Odes are a collection of praise songs, adapted principally from earlier Greek lyrics, on...
by Aditi Parikh | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
A Critique of Racial Inequality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a tragedy likely written in late 1593 and set in ancient Rome, is a meditation on early modern race relations that still resonates today. The play follows a white,...
by Adrienne Sockwell | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Letting your DNA “Show You the Way”: Selling the Politics of Genetics and the Business of Race As a historian, and as a person interested in most narratives of the past, I realize the unique value of Ancestry.com as a research tool in my own work. But, I...
by Carly Lewis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Måneskin: Italian Rockers on a Journey for Global Human Connection “Rock and Roll Never Dies!” From buskers on La Via del Corso to Eurovision winners, Måneskin shows what it means to earn a growing global platform and use it well This year’s Eurovision Song Contest...
by Rebecca Lipperini | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
The Soothing Aesthetics of the Supermarket I love the supermarket — fiercely, obsessively, weirdly. I go to the supermarket when I feel overwhelmed. And it turns out I’m not alone. I used to hang out at my local grocery store every day and see hundreds of other people...
