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Blog Another Semester of Being Useless Those of us who teach in humanities fields at university face the threshold of every new semester with the sinking…Debra RienstraJanuary 13, 2024
Blog January 12, 1888 Exactly 136 years ago today, a monster arose on the northern plains just as country school kids were about to…James C. SchaapJanuary 12, 2024
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