When the founders of the United States were considering what system of government they wanted to create following independence from Britain, they took inspiration from the classical models of democratic Athens and republican Rome.

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington’s small but growing bureaucracy.

Works of art have the power to prompt, provoke, and illuminate.

In her series titled Loss and Resurrection, lens-based artist and photographer Manjari Sharma documents her mother's on-going battle against (Frontotemporal) dementia. In this conversation, Sharma speaks with Dr.

Vishnu, the preserver, comes to earth in times of distress in order to maintain the cosmic order.

Author and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Emory Tipahine Yanique reads Chicken in the Kitchen, Nnedi Okarfor's award-winning look at masquerade culture in West Africa through th