Spiritual bondage
Divinity School historian Curtis J. Evans sees roots of racial segregation in early American notions of black religiosity.For generations, Evans argues, stereotypes about blacks’ “simple faith” kept them apart from the rest of American society.
Goodbye to the bubble boy
Medical researcher John Cunningham’s stem-cell–transplant technique offers a chance at a normal life to a child with a rare immune disorder.Constitutional conventions
Law School scholar Tom Ginsburg studies the founding documents of governments across the globe to find out what makes constitutions work.Style conscious
How artists sculpted the fashions that clothed their marble idols reveals how the ancient Greeks saw their own connection to divinity—and style in art.
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