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… Contributor and Scholar Merrill Peterson Has Died VQR contributor, Jeffersonian scholar, and UVA history professor Merrill Peterson has died . His long, full life included a Guggenheim fellowship, … Peace Corps at the age of 76 , with professional credentials including writing or editing 37 books, chairing the UVA …
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… VQR (Huh?) Lead National Mag Award Noms .” And Gawker.com huffed “What the f**k is The Virginia Quarterly Review ? …
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… frequent VQR contributor Jesse Dukes. Their poignant video complements a superb work of narrative journalism, “The … made both versions of this story available for free on our website. Such content is the reason I joined the VQR staff. … “both/and”—when it comes to offering rich content to audiences with distinct preferences in terms of how and how …
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… “Very strong medicine. I recommend a dose of it to the VQR.” A few authors were less … than thrilled with our recent listing of readers’ negative comments , worrying that their work may have received … extends not just to submissions that they don’t like , but also to submissions that they adore. Sometimes a submission …
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… explain the discrepancy between ships bound for two points along the American coast. For help, Franklin turned … workings of the Atlantic, the wide oceans began to shrink-becoming increasingly dominable and knowable places. (Indeed, … Lake Xolotlán in Managua, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world-the existence of which both …
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… fitting to cast an eye on American freedom, past and yet to come, as Michael Kammen has done in his VQR essay. As one of … Urbana where he was chairman of the history department. He also served as Harmsworth Professor of History at Queens … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www . virginia. edu/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: …