• History

    History

    The Black Descendants of President Madison

    By Bettye Kearse  March 25, 2020
    Art History

    Viewing Blackness Through the Lives of the Medici

    By Katy Simpson Smith  March 24, 2020
    Disasters

    At the Very Beginning of the Great Alaska Earthquake

    By Jon Mooallem  March 24, 2020
    Feminism

    Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

    By Soraya Chemaly  March 24, 2020
    TV

    HBO’s The Plot Against America Betrays Philip Roth—With Excellent Results

    By Jacques Berlinerblau  March 23, 2020
    Baseball

    Babe Ruth and the Moment American Baseball Changed Forever

    By Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith  March 23, 2020
    Sports

    On the Road with the Heiress Who Dominated Early Motorsports

    By Neal Bascomb  March 20, 2020
    Poetry

    A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

    By Mark Nowak  March 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Italy’s Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

    By Alessio Perrone  March 19, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Can We Talk About How Austen’s Characters Tend to Blur Together?

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 18, 2020
    Soviet Union

    In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

    By Alex Halberstadt  March 18, 2020
    Literary History

    How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2020
    Old Bookstores

    How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

    By Andrew Belonsky  March 16, 2020
    Social Science

    Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

    By Monique Truong  March 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

    By Liesl Schillinger  March 13, 2020
    War

    Lessons From the Qur’an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

    By Alireza Doostdar  March 13, 2020
    On Race

    Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

    By Jacob Dorman  March 12, 2020
    Iran

    Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

    By Terence Ward  March 12, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

    By Yan Lianke  March 11, 2020
    Forgeries

    The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

    By Nathan Rabb  March 11, 2020
    Neuroscience

    How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

    By Will Storr  March 11, 2020
    Big Pharma

    On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

    By Gerald Posner  March 11, 2020
    Prohibition

    How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon ‘Free Lunch.’

    By Ben Katchor  March 10, 2020
    Literary Tourism

    Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who
    Hated It?

    By Carolina Marques de Mesquita  March 9, 2020
    Medicine

    Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

    By David Nott  March 6, 2020
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