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The Author’s Corner with Mark Chambers

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 11, 2022

Mark Chambers is Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. This interview is based on his new book, Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840  (University of Tennessee Press, 2021). JF: What...

Wendell Berry’s NEH Jefferson Lecture

John Fea   |  April 24, 2012

Last night the Kentucky poet, fiction-writer, and activist Wendell Berry delivered the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture.  According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Berry delivered a “scathing critique of the industrial economy and its toll on...

Running a Civilization of Dunkin Donuts, TGIFs, and Leaf Blowers

John Fea   |  September 2, 2011

Over at Front Porch Republic, Jason Peters has assembled a pretty powerful collection of quotes from his favorite authors.  Here are a few of our favorites: We will extract everything we possibly can, even transforming the face of the earth...

Daylight Saving’s Time: One Man’s Noon is Another’s 11:50

John Fea   |  March 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

Don’t forget to change the clocks this weekend.  Perhaps Howard Mansfield’s op-ed in today’s New York Times will remind you.  This is a nice historical piece on time zones and daylight savings time in American history.  Here is a taste: […]

The Ruins of Detroit

John Fea   |  January 7, 2011

These photos say it all....

Dr. Seuss and Modern America

John Fea   |  November 9, 2009

I was lecturing in my U.S. survey class today on the social consequences of economic nationalism in the early American republic. I wanted the students to see that the United States’ attempt at developing a sense of nationalism in the...

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