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Episodes
Back Results for: Humanities
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Diva nation: Female icons from Japanese cultural history
![The many lives of Michelangelo](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/Michelangelo%2C_studio_per_porta_san_gallo.jpg?itok=0fOzJwVj)
The many lives of Michelangelo
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Saint Peter, according to Mark
![Frankenstein, the Concert: How to Create a Musical Monster](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/Frankenstein%20rehearsal.jpg?itok=HaEtjiY8)
Frankenstein, the Concert: How to Create a Musical Monster
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How to Sit on the Iron Throne: Power and Violence in "Game of Thrones" and History
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Good Gaucho Gone Bad: The Creole Drama
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The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
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Love music across time
![Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/Ma-Rainey.jpg?itok=Z5-xuEDC)
Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story
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Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual
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Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting
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Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving we know and love was manufactured
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"Do You Like Scary Movies?" Horror Films & Things That Make Us Scream
![Theater for Health](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/peru.jpg?itok=pg_uyuAg)
Theater for Health
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Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
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The Philosophy of Cancer
![Pain: A Cultural History](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/A_face_turned_away%2C_suffering_acute_pain._Lithograph_by_P._S_Wellcome_V0009421.jpg?itok=dHGkRFbc)
Pain: A Cultural History
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Venus, Deconstructed
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Galen and the Elephant's Heart
![The Non-sense of art](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/Schuman.jpg?itok=_Dyk7Sgx)
The Non-sense of art
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Shame: Friend or Enemy?
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Grief and Memoir: Writing about the Tough Stuff
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On Plot: Captain Happen & Other Devices
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Voice and Vocation in Nonfiction
![Poetic Elements](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/English_Phillips_C-1288759.jpg?itok=r6MIuYFq)
Poetic Elements
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"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean Theme
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Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web
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Claude Monet and the science of style
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Violence and Memory
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Remembering Baghdad
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The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in Early Modern Europe
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Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
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Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
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Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
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The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene
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Getting Lost with Radiolab: A Conversation with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
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The Birth of Theater As We Know It
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Why Shakespeare?
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The Real Antony and Cleopatra
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Shakespeare: In the Park & in the Streets
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Memories of Chinese New Year
![How to Write a Bad Poem](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/Ezra_Pound_2.jpg?itok=d6ntIVp9)
How to Write a Bad Poem
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Faith and protest in Ferguson
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Anarchism and dissent in medieval Islam
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Being "post-Protestant"
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Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant two-party system
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The Mormon Citizen
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Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation
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Chinese Writing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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God, oil, and pipeline politics
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In birth control we trust
![The Politician and the Poet](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/andrew_marvell_v2.png?itok=3BogtWPJ)
The Politician and the Poet
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Courting the Muse
![Pranking Emily Dickinson](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/Black-white_photograph_of_Emily_Dickinson_%28Restored%29.jpg?itok=f29Ei2_a)
Pranking Emily Dickinson
![Untethered Histories](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/04626101.jpg?itok=U-fLZ6L6)
Untethered Histories
![A Mirror World](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/Eagle-crashed.png?itok=0FrisaVo)
A Mirror World
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Brave Genius
![Please Burn After Reading](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/catarina-carvalho-wC46c3IL3O0-unsplash.jpg?itok=gf4FIct7)
Please Burn After Reading
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Behind the Mask, Part 2: The Evolution of a Genre
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Behind the Mask, Part 1: Superheroes and Supervillains
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The Foreign Language Question
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Youth Poets Take the Stage
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Uncovering Numismatics
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Pearl Curran: "Ghost"-writer
![Restless souls](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/Abdul_Baha_in_Green_Acre.jpg?itok=_2cRM0U2)
Restless souls
![The Ghost in the Machine](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/ghost%20in%20the%20machine.jpg?itok=Owacm2ac)
The Ghost in the Machine
![A Room of One's Own](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/a%20room%20of%20ones%20own.jpg?itok=PTOUULtj)
A Room of One's Own
![Magical Realism](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hold%20That%20Thought/magical%20realism.jpg?itok=jI_u-1Jl)
Magical Realism
![Slippery Nonfiction](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/slippery%20nonfiction.jpg?itok=4YsUxnxn)
Slippery Nonfiction
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Translating Dante
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Coming of Age
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Art and nationhood
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FB eyes
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Girlhood in Hollywood
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Rock and revolution
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Who should sing "Ol' Man River"?
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Stripes and scars
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A life in verse: A Conversation with Carl Phillips and Timothy Moore
![Classical Theater](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/Theater_of_Dionysus.jpg?itok=HkGqQPpz)
Classical Theater
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A Tale of Dual Cities
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In the Next Room
![City of the Big Shoulders](https://holdthatthought.wustl.edu/files/thought/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/News/00664v.jpg?itok=LmCT3adT)
City of the Big Shoulders
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City of the Big Shoulders, Part II
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The Many Lives of Apollonius
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"Reperformance" and Memory
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Creating a Federal Government
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A Man of Faith and Science: Pope Benedict XIV
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"Postmemory" and the Second Generation
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