• History

    Travel

    The Sant Jordi NYC Festival of Books & Roses is bringing the Catalan celebration to America.

     
    By James Folta  April 23, 2025
    Native American History

    How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

    By Mary Annette Pember  April 23, 2025
    Cultural History

    “The Question Project.” On John Dunton and the World’s First Advice Column

    By Mary Beth Norton  April 23, 2025
    Psychedelics

    The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

    By Susannah Cahalan  April 23, 2025
    The Hub

    What if the final meeting between V.P. Vance and Pope Francis took place in a Dan Brown novel?

    By James Folta  April 22, 2025
    Travel

    Following in Elephants’ Footsteps: Packing for a Congo Expedition in the 1800s, and Now

    By Sophy Roberts  April 22, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 18, 2025
    Social Justice

    Copaganda on the News: On the Crucial Stories the Media Ignores

    By Alec Karakatsanis  April 18, 2025
    On Poetry

    On the Enduring Power of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust, 50 Years Later

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 18, 2025
    Language

    On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages

    Lorna Gibb Considers How Language Shapes Identities, Worldviews and Societies Across the Globe

    By Lorna Gibb  April 23, 2025
    Espionage

    On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families

    By Shaun Walker  April 16, 2025
    American West

    What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

    By Martha A. Sandweiss  April 16, 2025
    Detective Fiction

    “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

    By Sarah Weinman  April 16, 2025
    Christianity

    Religion Meets the Swinging Sixties: How Western Christianity Confronted a Decade of Change

    Diarmaid MacCulloch Explores the Relationship Between Ecclesiastical Tradition and New Morality

    By Diarmaid MacCulloch  April 16, 2025
    Comedy

    “A Source of Amyuzmint.” On the Use of Bad Spelling in Early American Comedy

    By Gabe Henry  April 16, 2025
    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump administration is coming for American history. Here’s what we can do to fight back.

    By Brittany Allen  April 14, 2025
    Empowerment

    Beyond Institutions: Why Black Empowerment Must Bridge the Opportunity Gap

    Andre M. Perry on the Ongoing Struggle For Racial, Social and Economic Justice in America

    By Andre M. Perry  April 14, 2025
    The Lives of Women

    Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

    By Claire Hoffman  April 14, 2025
    African American Literature

    The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

    By Tiana Clark  April 14, 2025
    American History

    Abolitionists and Confederates: On the Complex History of American Jews During the Civil War

    By Richard Kreitner  April 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Goodnight, Moon is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children’s book stamps.

    By Brittany Allen  April 10, 2025
    The Classics

    On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  April 9, 2025
    Friendships

    On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

    By Priya Vulchi  April 9, 2025
    Native American History

    How the Cherokee Nation Used Diplomacy to Resist Subordination

    By David Narrett  April 17, 2025
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