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A well-regarded historian muses on key works that illuminate history and popular struggles.

This book, writes reviewer Tebble, "not only gives an account of the different meanings that have been ascribed to liberalism and evoked in its uses." It also "recovers some of those meanings that have been eclipsed, distorted and eroded."

In many Oscar bait movies, interracial friendships come with a paycheck, and follow the white character’s journey to enlightenment.

In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of selling fast food from beyond the grave.

Taking a global perspective, Ohio poet Amit Majmudar masterfully links issues of ecology and refugees.

An inquiry into how and why one’s class background in Great Britain privileges or thwarts access to elite occupations through an investigation of barriers to upward mobility.

This study "is a thoroughly engaging and much-needed contribution to a gendered understanding of the Cuban Revolution in particular and of armed conflict in general," says reviewer Triplett.

Four decades later, the 1979 pro-labor movie Norma Rae still holds up.

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Maniac tackles the idea of achieving normalcy despite mental illness by thrusting its characters into bizarre, otherworldly landscapes. Ultimately, the show concludes being "normal" is both impossible and undesirable.