Articles by Nathan Brown

A birch bark vessel sat on a plastic stand. Painted on the outside of the vessel, mounted Cossack musicians plucked their banduras and clashed cymbals together. Behind these musicians, a Cossack host clad with pikes, swords and rifles filled the surrounding landscape. After about 30 years of storage in the anthropology collection at the Milwaukee […]

Monastic life was at its pinnacle during the Middle Ages, however during the reformation of the 16th century, Martin Luther argued against monastic life, and monasteries across Protestant lands were dissolved. While there remained a strong tradition of monasteries in the Catholic and Orthodox faith, this tradition slowly faded as society was secularized during early […]

Nikkos Horaitis graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in media arts. Years later he is working as a lifeguard while attending a Utah-based online school to earn a certification in 3D animation. Horaitis understands the importance of a conventional four-year education, but has come to realize that employers in his field are […]

Around 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in Rome and ignited a civil war. While the voices of average citizens impacted by this event are absent from the historical record, they can be heard today in this imagined news story.

Christopher Brown, a lifelong baseball player, only walks up to the plate to one song.