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North Country Journey

A review of Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota, by Toby Thompson

Protecting the Innocent

A review of The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence, by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. De Boef, and Amber E. Boydstun

The Illustrated Guide

A review of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming, by Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump

A Taste for Fine Books

A review of The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print 1880-1914, by Willa Z. Silverman

Bonds of Endurance

A review of Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, by Anthony Kaye

Public Intellectual

A review of Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities by Michael Bérubé

Mining a Legacy

A review of Anthracite! An Anthology of Pennsylvania Coal Region Plays, edited by Philip Mosley

The Human Fabric

A review of Skin: A Natural History by Nina Jablonski

Hard Lessons

A review of From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation by Michael Kenney

Dreams Deferred

A review of Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America

Uncommon Words, Common Wealth

A review of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania

From Welfare to Workfare

Jennifer Mittelstadt examines the origins of welfare reform

The Perfect Hour

Author James West explores the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and the "real Daisy Buchanan"

What the World was Like

The Ape in the Tree tells the story of the human link to Proconsul

The Legacy of Three Mile Island

The anniversary of a disaster: Remembering the accident at Three Mile Island, more than a quarter-century later