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  • 7 Oct 2013

    Into the Intro: Sterilized by the State

    Sterilization as a public health policy did not end with Nazi Germany in World War II--rather it continued in North America well into the twentieth century. In this excerpt from Sterilized by the State by Randall Hansen and Desmond King, find out why.

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  • 5 Oct 2013
    Woodcut of The Frogs from a 1936 programme.

    Bringing Ancient Greek Drama to Life (Part Two)

    Translating jokes is hard. In his second feature to mark our sponsorship of the Cambridge Greek Play 2013, Dr Oliver Thomas considers some of the ways of translating (and not translating) an ancient Greek play to keep it amusing.

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  • 4 Oct 2013

    Who Were Sterilized by the State?

    Who were the victims of sterilization policies in the U.S.? Randall Hansen and Desmond King discuss three case studies, among the many they interviewed for their forthcoming book, Sterilized by the State.

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  • 3 Oct 2013

    Eugenics Where You’d Least Expect It

    Take a look into Sterilized by the State by Randall Hansen and Desmond King with the interactive slideshow below.

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  • 2 Oct 2013
    Donald T. Critchlow

    What the Left and the Right Can Learn from Hollywood Politics

    Most people view Hollywood politics today as a bastion of progressivism—for better or worse. Perhaps there is not much to learn from the current political scene in Hollywood other than celebrity and money matter—and Hollywood provides a lot of both. But Hollywood politics was not always so left-wing.

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  • 1 Oct 2013

    Hemingway’s Europe

    Hemingway lived a peripatetic life in Europe: first as a journalist for the Toronto Star, then as a full-time writer based in Paris. We trace the key locales that shaped him and his writing in Volume 2.

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  • 30 Sep 2013

    Into the Intro: Shakespeare Beyond English

    Shakespeare may be England's playwright, but his plays are a household name all over the world. In Shakespeare Beyond English, go behind the scenes of the Globe to Globe Festival where each of Shakespeare's plays was performed by a different international theatre company to explore what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the English language.

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  • 29 Sep 2013
    A drawing of a Jacobean actor

    Shakespeare’s Friends and Rivals

    Theatre historian, Dr Eva Griffith, talks to us about her latest book 'A Jacobean Company and Its Playhouse' (2013).

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