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Harper Lee’s unpublished stories are not ‘thrilling’ – but offer insight into a literary legend

Harper Lee with actor Mary Badham (‘Scout’ Finch), on the set of To Kill A Mockingbird in 1961. Leo Fuchs/Getty Images by Paul Giles, Australian Catholic...

Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

In the American South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images by Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine When...

Maya Angelou’s newly uncovered writing from Egypt and Ghana reveals a more radical side to her career

Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial. Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo by Alex White, University of Cambridge On August 28 1963, a...

From tuxedos to tattoos, Eleanor Medhurst’s Unsuitable traces a hidden history of lesbian fashion

Everett Collection/Shutterstock by Lorinda Cramer, Deakin University Blues singer Gladys Bentley was a dazzling star of the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the 1920s and ’30s...

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing Little Nell. Thomas Worth via...

White and Black activists worked strategically in parallel in Detroit 50 years ago, fighting for civil rights

A member of the Michigan National Guard stands at the ready as firemen battle a blaze in Detroit in July 1967. AP Photo by Say...

Are trans women ‘biologically male’? The answer is complicated

Sarah McBride, center, is the first out transgender member of Congress. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images by G. Samantha Rosenthal, Washington and Lee University A surprising buzzword in...

They botch our names because of who we are

Writer Atiya (pronounced Ah-Tie-Yah) Irvin-Mitchell stands for a portrait in her neighborhood of Squirrel Hill on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) Americans...

Gladiator II: historians on the fate of the real Roman royalty featured in the film

Denzel Washington plays Macrinus in the film. Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo by Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen and Michael La Corte, University of Tübingen Warning: this article...

Tito Jackson of the Jackson 5 has sadly passed away at age 70

Tito Jackson arrives at the opening night of, "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour," in Los Angeles, Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File) Tito...

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