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Unattributed: A Reading List on Plagiarism
In the internet age, plagiarizing has become easier to detect—and harder to resist.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
The Sense of an Endling
Scientists closely monitor the last member of a species. Is there space in a creature’s DNA to consider the prospect of no tomorrow?
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Itch and the Touch
Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.
Posted inBooks, History, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
Ona Judge slipped out of the president’s house one night and didn’t come back. But unlike most runaway slaves, she was never caught.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
A Story of Racial Cleansing in America
Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before?
Posted inNonfiction
Hidebound: The Grisly Invention of Parchment
While most of the Old World was writing on papyrus, bamboo, and silk, Europe carved its own gruesome path through the history books.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
A Story of Racial Cleansing in America
Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before?
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Coming Sept. 24: A Special Longreads Live Storytelling Night in New York City
On Sept. 24, Longreads is presenting a night of live storytelling with the theme of “Change: stories about change and the stories that have changed us.”
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Coming Sept. 24: A Special Longreads Live Storytelling Night in New York City
On Sept. 24, Longreads is presenting a night of live storytelling with the theme of “Change: stories about change and the stories that have changed us.”
