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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

E Pluribus Unum?

E Pluribus Unum?

Our national identity has always been hotly contested

by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | Thursday, June 03, 2021

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Your Favorite Season

by Brian Doyle

As much of the country starts to feel like a scorched desert or a humid swampland, “the only truly lovable season,“ writes the late, much-missed Brian Doyle in this 2014 essay, “the only truly lovable season, the season you know you love best even if you stand there gesticulating at me and making strangled sounds like asthmatic herons about how you love spring or fall, is summer.“

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