After 300 Years, Maryland's 1667 brick chapel reopens to the public
The Brick Chapel, originally built in 1667, has been dormant for over three centuries. Its reopening marks the culmination of ...
Witches Are Having a Cultural Moment. Some States Are Taking Up Their Cause.
Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...
Would you pass the U.S. citizenship test? 10 questions to challenge you
Each potential citizen faces 10 randomly selected questions from an official list of 100- and they must answer at least six ...
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
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Reflection on the ‘Badenoch Metaphor’: Class, racial-ethnic, and religious identities
The Badenoch affair is a metaphor—or, if you like, a constellation of metaphors—to the extent that it represents ...
In measles country
Among the customers coming and going from CanaMex Groceries, a Mennonite-owned convenience store in rural Norfolk County, Ont ...
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Reflection on the ‘Badenoch Metaphor’: Class, racial-ethnic, and religious identities
The social and economic interests and commitments of this class cut across national, ethnic, and religious boundaries ... Earlier, the “southern” presidential running mate of the “northern ...
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In Appalachia, Women Carry Traditions in Folk Magic and ‘Granny Witchcraft’
European settlers didn’t flood the early American colonies until the eighteenth ... Throughout the years of the Spanish Inquisition, religious institutions used the term “witch” to identify ...