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As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it's usually here to stay.
Some economists have begun to compare the current recession and recovery with a 'K,' while others see a 'V.' Which is it, and what does it mean?
The education philosopher Paulo Freire would have denounced the pandemic-fueled proliferation of online schooling as an affront to democracy and a further entitlement for those in positions of power.
The Sept. 11 bombings killed almost 3,000 Americans. But if you exclude that unique event for the last two decades of terrorist activity, a different picture of US vulnerability appears.
Chadwick Boseman's death at age 43 is emblematic of two disturbing health trends.
Two scholars react to Biden's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
As momentum builds to remove statutes that pay homage to Confederates and others who sought to uphold white supremacy, a historian explores questions about what should be erected in their place.
Narratives throughout history illustrate how pandemics make people grapple with their faith, leading them to deepen religious beliefs or reject them altogether.
Hay una larga tradición de pintores europeos que crearon y difundieron representaciones de Cristo hechas a su propia imagen, dice un historiador de arte.
Une historienne de l’art nous explique comment l'image d'un Jésus blanc et Européen est apparue, avant d’être diffusée dans le monde entier.
Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how this image appeared and came to be marketed worldwide.
Despite his defense of slavery, the former vice president and US senator from South Carolina has been honored with statues and streets, schools and counties. That's finally changing.
Youth physical inactivity was already a problem before COVID-19, but it doesn't have to stay that way.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
Since the state's first coronavirus case surfaced, trained case investigators have traced the contacts of every person who tested positive. Here's what else South Carolina got right.
The Education Department is reinterpreting rules Congress wrote for how public school systems should share federal dollars with private schools.
Washington has made all states use these tests to evaluate students, teachers, principals, schools and entire school systems for nearly two decades.
Fear of strangers extends beyond racism and discrimination against people who look like they might come from another place – it includes people who sound different, too.
Nurses on the front lines of a pandemic need education, training and institutional support.
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Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Physical Education, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Education, University of South Carolina
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, School of Medicine Greenville, University of South Carolina
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Ph.D. Student in English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
