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Elizabeth Stice

Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Honors Program. She is the author of Empire Between the Lines: Imperial Culture in British and French Trench Newspapers of the Great War (2023). In her spare time, she enjoys ultimate frisbee and putting together a review, Orange Blossom Ordinary.

Meaning & Membership

Elizabeth Stice   |  March 20, 2025

Associations are worth the effort

The Greatness of The Great Gatsby

Elizabeth Stice   |  March 7, 2025

Happy 100th!

It’s complicated: Malcolm Gladwell

Elizabeth Stice   |  January 27, 2025

If it was baseball, Malcolm Gladwell would be a really reliable hitter.

It’s okay to say “soccer”

Elizabeth Stice   |  January 13, 2025

The history of the term should reassure us.

Pretty boy Luigi

Elizabeth Stice   |  January 7, 2025

The story of “Pretty Boy Floyd” has parallels to the recent story of Luigi Mangione.

New You? Or Old Books?

Elizabeth Stice   |  January 1, 2025

Here’s a resolution: Craft a personal canon

Some of our favorite things II: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024

Eric Miller, Elizabeth Stice, John H. Haas and Nadya Williams   |  December 18, 2024

The beauty that made 2024 for us

Mistaken anger and mistaken identities

Elizabeth Stice   |  December 16, 2024

Anger is the kind of seasoning that needs to be used sparingly.

Other (other) Christmas movies

Elizabeth Stice   |  December 11, 2024

There are many more great Christmas movies, if you just think outside the box.

Is “The Media” in the room with us now?

Elizabeth Stice   |  December 4, 2024

Stop saying “media”!

To go or not to go: graduate school

Elizabeth Stice   |  November 25, 2024

Graduate school in the humanities is a gamble.

You had to be there

Elizabeth Stice   |  November 18, 2024

A universally popular song and the Olympics are probably the two most powerful unifying forces that exist in American culture.

FORUM: Election 2024, Part II

Jon D. Schaff, Elizabeth Stice and Eric Miller   |  November 12, 2024

A time to be silent, a time to speak

Historical stories I’d like to see as films

Elizabeth Stice   |  November 6, 2024

Hollywood needs more history.

My pleasure: why would you not want to be charming all the time?

Elizabeth Stice   |  October 21, 2024

Chick-Fil-A employees’ signature answer inspires an important question.

Shakespeare is “mid:” and other arguments in favor of education

Elizabeth Stice   |  October 7, 2024

Skepticism about books or culture is hardly new or different or exciting. Anti-intellectualism is a grand American tradition.

Something out of nothing? Not so fast.

Elizabeth Stice   |  September 30, 2024

One way that we hide hard realities is by pretending that nearly everything can be turned into or made from something else.

We Are Insufficiently Immunized Against Nazis

Elizabeth Stice   |  September 26, 2024

The Third Reich’s script would please far too many today

The art of living: Anthony Bourdain

Elizabeth Stice   |  September 16, 2024

This installment in The Art of Living series considers celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain.

Penguin Little Black Classics no. 6: Voices from the past, ideas for the present

Elizabeth Stice   |  September 3, 2024

Penguin Little Black Classics No.6 features two essays by John Ruskin.

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