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How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers

How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers

Natan Last on the Unlikely Origins of Simon & Schuster, Random House and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

By Natan Last | November 25, 2025

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

Kate Eichhorn Explores the Systematic Erasure of Political Speech in Yearbooks

By Kate Eichhorn | November 25, 2025

When England Tried to Tame Ireland’s Unruliest Province

When England Tried to Tame Ireland’s Unruliest Province

Anna Whitelock on the Creation of the Ulster Plantation and Great Britain’s Early History of Colonialism

By Anna Whitelock | November 25, 2025

Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

Ed Simon Considers the Many Different Ways an Obsession Can Manifest

By Ed Simon | November 24, 2025

What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves

What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves

Oren Harman Explores the Philosophical and Literary Side of Metamorphosis

By Oren Harman | November 24, 2025

The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence

The Innocenti: The Renaissance-Era Orphanage in Florence

Joseph Luzzi on the Abandoned Children of 1400s Italy

By Joseph Luzzi | November 24, 2025

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By Brittany Allen | November 19, 2025

What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

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Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others

By Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner | November 19, 2025

The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution

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Donald Sassoon Discusses How Years of Political Turmoil Resulted in the Advent of the Modern Era

By Donald Sassoon | November 19, 2025

Where Time and Space Collide: In Praise of Old Maps

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James Cheshire on the Valuable Work of Preserving and Unearthing the Past

By James Cheshire | November 19, 2025

Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman Consider the Techniques Cartographers Use to Prevent Counterfeiting

By Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman | November 18, 2025

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