• History

    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
    Controversies

    Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

    By John Erik Riley  December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Biography

    On the Ambitious Beginnings of China’s Influential Soong Sisters

    By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
    Celebrity

    Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

    By Leah Rosenzweig  December 4, 2019
    Sociology

    Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

    By J. M. Fenster  December 4, 2019
    World War II

    On the Eve of WWII:
    Three Days Before the Bombing of Paris

    By Françoise Frenkel  December 3, 2019
    Religious History

    Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed

    By Karen Armstrong  December 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
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