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Jewish communities have always followed some different customs in different parts of the world, but the 19th and 20th centuries brought much more dramatic divisions.
Finding cosmetics that are free of hormone- disrupting chemicals often means paying more. An epidemiologist explains the risk, particularly for young women.
Anti-obesity medications are becoming the go-to treatment for weight loss. But drugs alone may not provide the same benefits as lifestyle choices like exercise and a healthy diet.
A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. But he also insisted that young people cherish those fleeting moments of joy.
A scholar explains how artificial intelligence systems can revolutionize the way students learn.
Yom HaShoah, which falls on April 17-18, 2023, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still resisting the culture of violence.
Secession talk evokes fears of a second Civil War. But one scholar says secession is already happening in the US under a variety of guises.
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
The Democratic National Committee is shaking up its presidential nominating calendar to give people of color an earlier vote in the process.
L’attrait de l’écrivain tient-il à la puissance et à la complexité de sa prose ou au fait qu’on le considère comme un éternel outsider ?
Is the writer’s appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
A scholar of Jewish history explains why the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel has such power and meaning.
The Lag BaOmer pilgrimage, in which 45 people died recently, takes place each year to what is believed to be the gravesite of the second-century Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
In the early 1970s, rumors about poisoned candy on Halloween led to mass paranoia. A historian explains why such fears emerge – and what, in reality, feeds them.
Drastic oxygen losses in the world’s oceans millions of years ago coincided with mass extinctions. Scientists see this as a warning about how climate change could affect oceans today.
During the past two decades, the US casino industry has expanded dramatically. According to the American Gaming Association, there are now nearly 1,000 commercial and tribal casinos in the country. Plans…
Famous boxing promoter, Kellie Maloney, recently came out as transgender. She did so as a pre-emptive move, because it had become clear to her that at least two newspapers were going to out her without…
Rick Astley, 80s pop singer and unlikely king of internet memes, is dead. Or at least the most persistent song in his catalogue is. Or at least its most popular unofficial YouTube upload is. Or at least…
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Professor of History Emeritus, College of Charleston
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Professor of Geology & Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston
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Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston
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Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
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Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
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Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston
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Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
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Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
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Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, College of Charleston
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Professor of political science and public administration, College of Charleston
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Associate Professor of Public Health, College of Charleston
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Professor of English, College of Charleston
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Professor of Strategic Communication, College of Charleston
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Professor of Exercise Science and Interim Dean of the School of Health Sciences, College of Charleston
