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Oil Courses

Grounded in deep concern about the climate crisis, Carolyn Williams-Noren's Oil Courses recalls a family reliant on the oil industry—her father worked for British Petroleum in Anchorage, Alaska—and a summer spent in its service on Endicott Island. What "curriculum" has oil ...

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Civil War Camps and Soldier Health

The Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with ...

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A Fraction of a Point

When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they’re expected to win. That’s because they’ve won each year—since 2004. And as the streak builds, there’s more pressure each year ...

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The First 649 Days

Using forms as diverse as journal entries, cell phone texts, children’s picture books, and erasure poems, LeMay wrestles with questions of illness, isolation, identity, grief, family, and love because, like so many us, he’s had to live them. He was ...

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Beyond Steel

While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds"), its transition away from steel has in fact been uneven and contested. Christopher P. Briem grew up ...

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Artisans and Designers

Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” William and Elizabeth Phelps, a husband-and-wife design duo, were already working to create handcrafted leathergoods and functional women’s sportswear that could be worn for decades. ...

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News

Carolyn Williams-Noren (Oil Courses) tells the tale of two books to MPRNews
“Compelling.”—Kirkus Reviews on Oil Courses (Carolyn Williams-Noren)
How One Ohio High School Built An Unlikely Gymnastics Dynasty—Nina Mandell (A Fraction of a Point)
Audio: Tom Hillman (Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring) speaks to The Entmoot Podcast
Link to catalog archive
YouTube video: [The Complete Funky Winkerbean: by Tom Batiuk] This video includes audio. Captions are available in the YouTube player. Open video on YouTube