• History

    American History

    What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

    By Earl Swift  April 25, 2024
    Ancient History

    What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

    By Bettany Hughes  April 25, 2024
    Inventions

    Crash Again, Crash Better: A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight

    By Joe Fassler  April 24, 2024
    Economics

    Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

    By Joseph E. Stiglitz  April 24, 2024
    Drinking

    How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

    By Nicola Nice  April 24, 2024
    Democracy

    On America’s Two-Party System… And the Damage It Has Done

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 23, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

    By Ed Simon  April 19, 2024
    Women in Science

    How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

    By Erin Zimmerman  April 19, 2024
    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    The Hub

    What if Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales came out today?

    By James Folta  April 17, 2024
    Cultural History

    How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

    By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
    Medical history

    The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

    By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
    Journalism

    What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher  April 16, 2024
    Aliens?

    Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

    By Lisa Kaltenegger  April 16, 2024
    World War I

    How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

    By Michael Korda  April 16, 2024
    Palestine

    Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

    By Ben Ehrenreich  April 15, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
    Irish History

    How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

    By Henry Hemming  April 15, 2024
    Geopolitics

    Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

    By Adam E. Casey  April 15, 2024
    Colonialism

    How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

    By Hampton Sides  April 15, 2024
    The Hub

    A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

    By Brittany Allen  April 12, 2024
    Music history

    How Deregulation Destroyed Indie Rock Across America

    By Tom Maxwell  April 12, 2024
    Queer Literature

    More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

    By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
    Artists

    What Obituaries Can Tell Us About How the World Views Artists

    By Jim Moske  April 11, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

    By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
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