• History

    Cities

    Portrait of Kaduna City, a Half
    Completed Story

    By Pwaangulongii Dauod  April 15, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Letter From Beirut: From Revolution to Pandemic

    By Lina Mounzer  April 14, 2020
    American History

    On the Anniversary of the Murder of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth

    By Edward Achorn  April 14, 2020
    Baseball

    The Early Career of a New York
    Yankee Icon

    By Jon Pessah  April 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Quarantine Diversion #3,477: Virtually spin these historical globes from the British Library.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 13, 2020
    Literary History

    How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

    By Damon Young  April 13, 2020
    Fashion History

    Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

    By Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano  April 10, 2020
    Gender and Politics

    Why Women Kill

    By Asale Angel-Ajani & Nimmi Gowrinathan  April 10, 2020
    Language

    How Did England Get Its Bizarro Street Names?

    By Deirdre Mask  April 9, 2020
    Writing About Family

    Writing From Within the Rosenberg Family Legacy

    By Ellen Meeropol  April 9, 2020
    Literary History

    Moby-Dick’s Powerful Message for the Atomic Age

    By Gilbert Wilson  April 8, 2020
    Literary History

    In a Quiet London Enclave, Five Iconic Women Writers Forged a Home

    By Francesca Wade  April 8, 2020
    Judaism

    On Early Judaism and Its Conception of the Afterlife

    By Bart Ehrman  April 8, 2020
    The Hub

    A newly discovered portrait of Mary Pearson reminds us that the Austens were total jerks about her.

    By Corinne Segal  April 7, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Ta-Nehisi Coates: On the Privilege of Knowing David Carr

    By Ta-Nehisi Coates  April 7, 2020
    Literary History

    An Exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez’s Long Road to Becoming a Writer

    By Lance Richardson  April 6, 2020
    Women's History

    Meet Nancy Wake, the Most Incredible Woman You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Ariel Lawhon  April 6, 2020
    Women's suffrage

    Helen Hamilton Gardener’s Fight Against Sexist Science

    By Kimberly A. Hamlin  April 6, 2020
    Guns

    Once Upon a Time, the NRA Stood Up to the Gun Industry

    By Frank Smyth  April 3, 2020
    Free Speech

    The Time Giuseppe Verdi Battled *Actual* Censorship

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  April 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age

    By Paul Auster  April 2, 2020
    Journalism

    Women in War: On Great Correspondents Past and Present

    By Jacqueline Winspear  April 2, 2020
    Language

    Foxed, Fuddled, Swallowed a Hare, and Other Words for “Drunk”

    By Literary Hub  April 2, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Some useful vintage advertisements and posters that encourage social distancing.

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    A Few 19th-Century Parlor Games to Amuse You While You’re Stuck at Home

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2020
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