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    Activism

    Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

    By Adam Hochschild  March 5, 2020
    The Hub

    Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 4, 2020
    Libraries

    How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

    By Alana Mohamed  March 4, 2020
    Style

    Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

    By Dylan Byron  March 3, 2020
    War

    Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

    By Tim Bakken  March 2, 2020
    News and Culture

    When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

    By Matt Kapp  February 28, 2020
    On Race

    The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

    By Mikki Kendall  February 27, 2020
    Journalism

    When America’s Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon

    By Stephanie Gorton  February 27, 2020
    Literary History

    A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
    WWII

    Erik Larson on Writing Wartime Life During the London Blitz

    By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
    Folklore

    Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

    By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
    Poets

    Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

    By Emily Van Duyne  February 24, 2020
    Poets

    When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
    Spanish Civil War

    By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
    Race

    Did Medgar Evers’ Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

    By Jerry Mitchell  February 24, 2020
    The Hub

    Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once beat a murder charge by translating some Latin.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 21, 2020
    On Poetry

    On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
    Amelia Earhart

    By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
    American History

    Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

    By Serena Zabin  February 20, 2020
    Soccer

    Football is Everything (Which is to
    Say Soccer)

    By David Goldblatt  February 19, 2020
    Socialism

    How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

    By Charlotte Alter  February 19, 2020
    La Belle Epoque

    The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

    By Julian Barnes  February 18, 2020
    Archives

    Cataloguing Carson McCullers’ Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

    By Jenn Shapland  February 18, 2020
    Counterculture

    The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock

    By Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon  February 18, 2020
    Valentine's Day

    You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine’s Day

    By Emily Temple  February 14, 2020
    Socialism

    What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

    By Paul Scraton  February 14, 2020
    Readers

    How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

    By Craig Fehrman  February 13, 2020
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