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WWJD?
Who first asked the question: What Would Jesus Do? Hint: he went to Brown.
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No Bonfires, Please
Archibald "Archie" Delany spent a lot of his time preventing students from burning down the campus.
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Ursus Brownicus
In the old days, bears were not always volunteers.
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Pope Addict
David Kertzer ’69 has attracted Steven Spielberg with his sagas of papal drama
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House Secrets
Twentieth-century history told through the inhabitants of a Prague mansion
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Unfrozen
Professor Bathsheba Demuth on the environment and dog-mushing in the Yukon.
Humanities & Culture
Set in Stone
Undertaking a huge restoration project in the Philippines
Humanities & Culture
Big Game Hunting
One family’s passion for collecting Victorian table games
Humanities & Culture
Toilet Papers
A course on the history and science of human excrement is not a “gut.”
History
Northern Aggression
A Brown symposium looks at the key role Rhode Island—and all of New England—played in the slave trade.
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Mr. Dinosaur
Paleontologist Matthew Carrano ’91 and the Smithsonian’s “Deep Time” exhibit.
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An American Tragedy
A new book chronicles the life of John F. Kennedy ’83
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Fighting for Their Future
Lauren Maunus ’19 and Emma Bouton ’20 have been on the front lines of the growing youth environmental movement.
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