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Gilded Age
June 21, 2021
Chris Lehmann
What Made Gilded Age Politics So Acrimonious?
Fearful of increasing participation, elites of the era attempted to rein in democracy.
December 10, 2020
Robert Jackson Wood
The Stubborn Classism of Classical Music
What critics get wrong about the genre’s long-standing diversity problems

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