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Tipoffs on New England Newsletter for Sunday April 21, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Flags, Stamps, and Coins: Yale Scholar Traces Markers of U.S. Sovereignty
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 20 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: By Lisa Prevost When the United States claimed sovereignty over a handful of overseas territories around the turn of the 20th century, object lessons in American patriotism followed straight away. The American flag was immediately raised above schoolhouses and government buildings. Postage stamps and money were reprinted with images of American symbols and heroes. National iconography appeared nearly every  more

UPenn School of Arts & Sciences: In Conversation With the Iconic Margaret Atwood
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news on April 19, 2024: * * * A capacity crowd filled Irvine Auditorium for the author's discussion with Professor Emily Wilson during the School of Arts & Sciences Dean's Forum. * * * Laughter may not be what you'd expect to hear during a conversation about dystopian societies between two literary lions. But laughter frequently filled Penn's Irvine Auditorium during a disc  more