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Why American Looks the Way It Does
September 28, 2026
A lively new book by the historian Joshua Specht, “Property Values” (Princeton), considers land ownership from the country’s founding to now. It’s been two hundred and fifty years of tumult. Nineteenth-century settlers saw themselves as pioneers, breaking new ground, but, Specht notes, so did twentieth-century suburbanites. Understandably so. His book describes campaign after campaign to remake the land.
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Paleo games at Notre Dame lets student, staff try ancient skills
September 28, 2026
“This is hands-on learning as I've been asking some students as they use the spears and the dunk tank how hard is it do you think you'd be able to hunt down your dinner in the Paleolithic and they're like no we'd die,” said Cara Ocobock, associate professor of anthropology. “So, I think it helps students really get some idea of what our life was like you know 100,000 years ago 300,000 years ago and the kind of very necessary and difficult skills you'd have to cultivate to survive."
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