• History

    NewberyTart

    Kathryn Lasky on the Character Perspective That Most
    Interests Her

    By NewberyTart   October 16, 2020
    The Hub

    A Shakespeare First Folio sold this week for $10 million.

    By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2020
    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 15, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Jason Diamond on Suburban Sprawl, AKA Attack of the Blob

    By The Maris Review  October 15, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Fatima Bhutto: No One Who Has Suffered the Handprint of America Is Surprised by Police Brutality

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 15, 2020
    Keen On

    How Neoliberalism Created the New Age of Monopolies

    By Keen On  October 15, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Hitler’s Tiger Tanks: When Symbols of Invasion Become Tourist Attractions

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 15, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

    By Lydia R. Hamessley  October 14, 2020
    Keen On

    Voting Isn’t Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

    By Keen On  October 14, 2020
    Philosophy

    On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida’s Algeria

    By Peter Salmon  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

    By Literary Hub  October 14, 2020
    Black Music

    Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

    By Anaïs Duplan  October 14, 2020
    Abolition

    How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

    By H.W. Brands  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

    By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

    By Richard M. Eaton  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States’ Influence in the Middle East

    By Rashid Khalidi  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    On Rethinking the ‘Modern’ in Modern Greece

    By Roderick Beaton  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

    By Vincent Brown  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

    By Paul Lay  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

    By Claudio Saunt  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

    By Kerri K Greenidge  October 14, 2020
    Soviet Union

    Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

    By Julius Margolin  October 13, 2020
    Expatriates

    Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

    By Soledad Fox Maura  October 13, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    By Lit Century   October 13, 2020
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