Look Out
The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
Look Out is an exploration of long-distance mapping, aerial photography, and top-down and far-ranging perspectives—from pre–Civil War America to our vexed modern times of drone warfare, hyper-surveillance at home and abroad, and quarantine and protest.
Washington People: Kenneth Andrews
The past two decades have been marked by unprecedented levels of activism in the U.S., with no signs of slowing down. Historically based research by Kenneth “Andy” Andrews, the Tileston Professor of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, offers insights into how social movements can achieve lasting change.
Discovery expands understanding of Neolithic agricultural practices, diets in East Asia
The adzuki bean — a staple crop prominent in various East Asian cuisines — has been cultivated in the region for more than 8,000 years, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Shandong University in China have discovered.
Mid-decade redistricting may be new norm
The Missouri Legislature has passed a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps, potentially handing a Democrat-leaning seat to Republicans and giving Republicans a 7-1 district advantage. Partisan mid-decade redistricting, once very rare, could become the new normal, says an expert on voting rights at Washington University in St. Louis.
90 Seconds to Midnight
A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey
90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a 13-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has […]
Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone
Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem
The story of how Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, has become synonymous with nature conservation — and an examination of today’s challenges to preserve the region’s wilderness heritage.
Forging a Mexican People
Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968
Forging a Mexican People shows how illustrated print culture helped to construct and deconstruct versions of “a people” in postrevolutionary Mexico.
Weidenbaum Center fall series kicks off Sept. 4
From politics on college campuses to the economy and AI, the fall events series presented by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis will address many of the most pressing policy issues facing America and the world today.
Sadat named to eyeWitness to Atrocities board
Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at WashU, has been appointed to the board of eyeWitness to Atrocities, founded by the International Bar Association.
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to visit WashU
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returns to WashU Sept. 10 for a chat with Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.
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