Silvia L. Siegel-Yousef
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Emphasizing the Creative
Historically, the path to a creative thesis has not always been clear.
To Substack Or Not to Substack
What brings all of these people to this platform for writing? Are we witnessing the emergence of a new public forum? A newly accessible location for language? What does the popularity of Substack as a less established, institutional space for writing, even at so established an institution as Harvard, mean?
Advice to Alan Garber
Have you considered selling merch?
Lexington’s Resurrection of the Revolution
A few minutes later, a group of children perched in a tree above our heads alert us to the imminent arrival of the British regiment. The force, with bright red jackets, muskets in hand, and feathers in their hats, marches into the town common to the jaunty sound of drums and pipes. The first shot of the battle rings out, as it did a quarter of a millennium ago, just after dawn.
The Archives of Mira Nair
Only a few decades later, the archives of Mira Nair's own artistic career have a home at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, where you can see for yourself the gray boxes that include her undergraduate exams a few manila folders away from The New Yorker articles and lists of awards, all testaments to a life of activism and art.
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The first step of signing up for a Substack account is to select 3 topics from a set list, so the algorithm can recommend Substacks that fit your interests.
The first step of signing up for a Substack account is to select 3 topics from a set list, so the algorithm can recommend Substacks that fit your interests. Clicking on most of these options expands them into subcategories—if you’re interested in “Literature,” for example, you can choose whether you are more interested in “Book Clubs” or “Literary Criticism.”