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Mange, Morphine, and Deadly Disease: Medicine and Public Health in Red Dead Redemption 2
The video game offers a realistic portrayal of illness and public health in the 19th-century American West.
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Leah Richier
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Nursing Clio
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March 12, 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It
Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.
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Jonathan S. Jones
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Slate
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February 4, 2019
Who Were the Pinkertons?
A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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February 1, 2019
Cult of the Cowboy: Inside the Toxic Adoration of an All-American Obsession
Video games, violence and the enduring allure of the vigilante hero.
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Rachel Wagner
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Literary Hub
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February 26, 2025
What Red Dead Redemption II Reveals About Our Myths of the American West
On the making of a centuries-old obsession at the heart of American national identity.
by
Tore C. Olsson
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Literary Hub
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August 28, 2024
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