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A question of neutrality: Switzerland’s role in 19th-century imperialism
Penn rising fourth-year Sophie Mwaisela stands in front of a brick archway with her arms crossed.

Sophie Mwaisela is a rising fourth-year in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in history.

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A question of neutrality: Switzerland’s role in 19th-century imperialism

History undergraduate Sophie Mwaisela traveled to Geneva this summer to conduct research for her honors thesis.

Kristen de Groot

Rise of the microschool: Small, student-centered learning spaces take off
Christian Science Monitor

Rise of the microschool: Small, student-centered learning spaces take off

Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education says that multi-age, communal school environments with small student populations have consistently reemerged through the decades as Americans have rejected sprawling schools with hundreds or thousands of students.

Disability in America
Judy Heumann is applauded during her swearing-in as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Service in 1993.

Judy Heumann, center, is applauded during her swearing-in as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Service by Judge Gail Bereola, left, in Berkeley, California, on June 29, 1993. At left is Berkeley Mayor Loni Hancock with sign language interpreter Joseph Quinn, and Julie Weissman, right, in attendance. Heumann, a renowned disability rights activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, died on March 4, 2023.

(Image: AP Photo/Susan Ragan)

Disability in America

In a Q&A, history and sociology of science professor Beth Linker discusses the history of disability in America.

Kristina García

Frederick Douglass: Belfast statue of Black anti-slavery activist unveiled
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Frederick Douglass: Belfast statue of Black anti-slavery activist unveiled

Rising second-year Florence Onyiuke in the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences from Orlando, Florida, describes the unveiling of a statue of anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Reinventing customary law in medieval France
Historian Ada Kuskowski listens to a speaker sitting next to her at a table.

Ada Maria Kuskowski is a medieval and legal historian. 

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Reinventing customary law in medieval France

A new book by historian Ada Maria Kuskowski of the School of Arts & Sciences traces the formation of customary law as a field of knowledge in medieval Europe.

Kristen de Groot