• History

    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
    Country Music

    The Songwriters Behind Country Music’s Biggest Hits

    By Bobbie and Bill Malone  March 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Meet the Unacknowledged Hero Who Discovered That Handwashing Saves Lives

    By Liesl Schillinger  March 27, 2020
    Women's History

    The Woman Who Fought for Sing Sing’s Early Female Prisoners

    By Idanna Pucci  March 27, 2020
    Aliens?

    The Moment the Myth of Alien Abduction Was Born

    By David J. Halperin  March 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Help out the NYPL and pass the time with this New York City oral history project.

    By Corinne Segal  March 25, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How to Spend 42 Days Stuck
    in Your Room

    By Will Schwalbe  March 25, 2020
    Politics

    One Utah County’s Decades-Long Struggle for the Native American Vote

    By David Daley  March 25, 2020
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