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Endowed English professor connects literature and role-playing games
Emily Friedman never expected a media trend built around recorded role-playing games to shape her research career. But today, she is helping define the emerging world of Actual Play, a booming genre she describes as “the biggest thing people haven’t heard of.”
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License to plunder: The role of pirates in the American Revolution
During the American Revolution, privateering became a powerful wartime strategy, giving the fledgling nation another way to challenge the world's greatest naval power.
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Common ground at Ground Zero: How an Auburn-trained historian is reframing 9/11 for a generation too young to remember — her own
Brucie Porter '25 was three years old on Sept. 11, 2001. She doesn't remember a second of it. Now it's her job to ensure others never forget it.
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Think Global, Listen Local: How Auburn graduate students are reimagining global development research
Auburn's Global Development Solutions Lab brings faculty, graduate students and international partners together to tackle global development challenges through community-driven research across Africa.