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Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.
The arrest of a former American president is unprecedented, but the nation’s founders anticipated the day would come.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Black students told a researcher they felt conflicted about hiding parts of themselves in order to get ahead.
A scholar who has studied imprisonment explains why the promise of sentence reductions in return for organ donation raises ethical issues about whether inmates can ever consent freely.
Pentecostals agree on the importance of the Holy Spirit – but not necessarily on what it empowers them to do.
Spain has long avoided addressing the fact that tens of thousands of Spaniards were victims of Nazis, who collaborated with Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco.
Alabama has paused the carrying out of death sentences after a series of cases in which the state struggled with the procedure.
Ronald Reagan may have been known as ‘The Great Communicator,’ but rap artists don’t view his legacy through such rose-colored glasses. A professor of Black studies and history takes a closer look.
On Nov. 8, the US may experience a surge of voters intimidated by Election Day challenges to their right to cast a ballot.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.
Ensuring that children hone skills and build up credentials at a young age is part of a long-term plan common among the South Asian parents who immigrate to the United States.
A PBS documentary has reinitiated conversations about the influence of Billy Graham. Here are three articles that describe the impact and the enduring legacy of the famed preacher.
Mary Washington raised George and his four siblings mainly alone, imbuing in George many of his best traits. Historians have focused instead on George’s complaints about her.
Despite a growth in revenue from wind farms, many rural school districts are being nudged by policy and law to spend the money on buildings and not instruction.
Some racism isn’t criminal at all but still is the result of deep-seated and long-standing racial prejudices.
The ethics of idleness have been debated for thousands of years.
Few middle-class Americans undergoing Chapter 13 bankruptcy blame the government. They portray themselves as hardworking victims and resent others for taking more than their fair share.
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Professor of Religion, Amherst College
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Poler Family Professor and Chair of Psychology, Amherst College
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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College
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Professor of Psychology, Amherst College
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Associate Professor of History, Amherst College
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Associate Professor of English, Amherst College
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
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Assistant Professor of economics, Amherst College
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Assistant Professor of Religion, Amherst College
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Professor emerita of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
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Associate Provost and Professor of American Studies, Amherst College
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Professor of Spanish, Amherst College
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Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College
