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‘Their Great Soul-Hungering Desire Was Freedom’

By Lawrence Goodman

Historian Abigail Cooper studies how African Americans living in Civil War-era refugee camps imagined — and constructed — their futures after slavery.

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The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

By Lawrence Goodman

Physicist Bjoern Penning and his lab collaborate on a state-of-the-art experiment a mile underground, to unlock the stubborn mysteries of dark matter.

a smiling angela davis, holding documents, surrounded by female students.

Brandeis and the Soul of American Political Activism

By Alex Green ’04

An insightful new book by emeritus professor Stephen J. Whitfield, PhD’72, details how Brandeis faculty members helped protect and advance liberalism in the U.S. from the late 1940s to the early ’70s.

actor laverne cox, dressed in prison garb and wearing a prison ID, in a scene from "orange is the new black."

Out and Proud On-Screen

By Naomi Zeveloff

Media portrayals of LGBTQ people play a major role in the public’s understanding of sexual minorities, says communications scholar Larry Gross ’64.