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Our research projects spread far and wide, from the study of thoroughbred horse-racing, to the rise of the use of rap in legal cases.

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Facts on the Ground: Mapping Harlem’s History

Examining aspects of the material and cultural development of Harlem, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century

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A Kingdom For a Horse

Learn about The Racetrack in Nineteenth-Century American Culture research project.

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Prosecuting Rap

Challenging the use of rap in the criminal justice system.

Show Me the Money - Wall Street bulls

Show Me the Money

Find out more about the Show Me the Money exhibition.

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Freud's 'Fruitful' Theories

Freud's 'Fruitful Theories', and the Place of Psychoanalysis in the American Human Sciences.

The Fifth Report - Documents from the American Civil War

Britain and the American Civil War

Read about A Case Study of the Union and Emancipation Society.

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