Top 10 Histories You Probably Don’t Know About (but should)
History often gets a bad rap. People see it as boring, irrelevant, and Eurocentric, making it difficult to relate to.
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An Unnecessarily Incomplete Canon: A Critique of Rolling Stone’s Latest 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone could learn from the adage that a rolling stone gathers no moss — and roll on by ditching
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Sometimes You Have to Look Back to Look Forward
History is our past, the present, and the creation of our future. It is what has shaped us into the
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Bringing the 1920s to 2019: “Radium Girls: In Concert” Glows with Intersectional Messages
Last Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in Olde Club, a packed, standing audience murmured amongst themselves as they waited
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“Every Building on the Sunset Strip”: Ruscha’s Celebration of the Vernacular
In 1966, Omaha-born, L.A.-based artist Ed Ruscha began self-printing 5,000 copies of one of his few art books, “Every Building
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History Majors: A thing of the Past?
With the boom of tech and computer industries, an increasing number of students are choosing to major in the S.T.E.M.
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College Archives Unveil ML’s Storied History
Located a fifteen-minute walk away from campus, Mary Lyon dormitory does not even appear on the campus map. It’s located
Read moreThis has happened before: we must remember our history
Over the last few weeks, the Swarthmore community has been inundated with student activism. Students are voicing their concerns and
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Book and Key: A Brief History
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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