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L. Frank Baum's first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

L. Frank Baum's first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

It didn't do quite as well as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By Emily Temple | May 17, 2019

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

From Rooming Houses to the YMCA

By George Chauncey | May 17, 2019

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Where Else Do Men of Letters Pal Around?

By Leo Damrosch | May 16, 2019

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

A City on the Edge

By Julia Flynn Siler | May 15, 2019

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle

By Susan Ware | May 13, 2019

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

"Shade Comes From Reading. Reading Came First." –Dorian Corey

By Jeanna Kadlec | May 13, 2019

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How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

By David K. Randall | May 9, 2019

We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

By Douglas Brinkley | May 8, 2019

On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

By Gordon H. Chang | May 8, 2019

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

Jacques Schiffrin and the Creation of Pléiade Editions

By Amos Reichman | May 7, 2019

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with <br>the British Monarchy?)

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

From Shakespeare to Austen, the Hagiographic to the Contemptuous

By Robert Morrison | May 6, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer <br>Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

"Without experience... We can possess no knowledge of the world."

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

"White’s patriotism is clear-eyed; his nationalism nonexistent."

By Jon Meacham | May 6, 2019

Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All

Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All

Mateo Askaripour on the "Father of African Cinema"

By Mateo Askaripour | May 2, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

At What Point Does Resistance Become the Only Choice?

By Edmund White | April 30, 2019

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

Two Tyrants, Two Poets, and a Long Pilgrimage to Milan

By Marion Turner | April 29, 2019

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