• History

    Philosophy

    The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

    By John Kaag and Douglas Anderson  January 9, 2020
    Travel

    The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

    By Candacy Taylor  January 8, 2020
    Reading Women

    Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

    By Reading Women  January 8, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

    By Daniyal Mueenuddin  January 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 6, 2020
    Feminist Classics

    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2020
    History

    On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

    By Camilla Townsend  December 19, 2019
    On Racism

    The Governor’s Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

    By Peggy Wallace Kennedy  December 19, 2019
    Sex

    One Man’s Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

    By Susan G. Davis  December 18, 2019
    Anthropology

    Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

    By Guy Crosby  December 17, 2019
    Ancient History

    On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  December 17, 2019
    American History

    Bringing Hitler’s Hidden Army to Justice

    By Debbie Cenziper  December 16, 2019
    Criticism

    For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2019
    American History

    Meet a Bad Man Who Became
    a Truly Great Spy

    By Owen Matthews  December 16, 2019
    Medieval History

    Finding a Beautiful Escape in Illuminated Manuscripts

    By Christopher de Hamel  December 16, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    Virginia Woolf’s Mother Haunts
    Much of Her Writing

    By Gillian Gill  December 12, 2019
    American History

    W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

    By Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall  December 12, 2019
    Disneyland

    Disneyland Hasn’t Always Been the Happiest Place on Earth

    By Richard Snow  December 12, 2019
    Education

    The American Universities That Took in Scholars from Nazi Europe

    By Laurel Leff  December 12, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 12, 2019
    Anthropology

    In Search of Treasure in London’s
    Riverine Mud

    By Lara Maiklem  December 11, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    How Cleanliness and Beauty Became Intertwined
    in the 18th Century

    By Peter Ward  December 11, 2019
    Biography

    The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

    By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
    Jane Austen

    Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

    By Hilary Davidson  December 10, 2019
    The Cold War

    How Berlin Reckons with Its Past Each and Every Day

    By Paul Scraton  December 10, 2019
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