Voting Isn't Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

Voting Isn't Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

Martha S. Jones in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

Peter Salmon Considers the Philosopher's Early Life

By Peter Salmon | October 14, 2020

Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

From the Aztec Empire to the Birth of Modern Greece, Some of the Best in Contemporary History

By Literary Hub | October 14, 2020

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Anaïs Duplan on Popular Language, Outside Figures, and the Struggle for Recognition

By Anaïs Duplan | October 14, 2020

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger

By H.W. Brands | October 14, 2020

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

From Kim Ghattas's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Black Wave

By Kim Ghattas | October 14, 2020

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How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

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On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

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The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

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The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

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From Paul Lay's Cundill-Prize Nominated Providence Lost

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How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-Nominated
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On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

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From Kerri K. Greenidge's Cundill-Prize Nominated Black Radical

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

From Julius Margolin's Memoir of Life in the Gulag

By Julius Margolin | October 13, 2020

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

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By Soledad Fox Maura | October 13, 2020

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's <em>Nightwood</em>

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