Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Edward Dolnick on Rigorous Yet Humorously Misguided Scientific Inquiry in the 17th and 18th Centuries

By Edward Dolnick | August 8, 2024

Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s

Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s

Eliza Griswold Chronicles the Emergence of a Unique Blend of Counterculture and Christianity

By Eliza Griswold | August 8, 2024

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Kapka Kassabova Explores What’s Left of an Ancient Tradition Marked by a Century of Upheaval

By Kapka Kassabova | August 7, 2024

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

Kate Weinberg Finds Literary Inspiration in Romeo and Juliet’s Original Creator

By Kate Weinberg | August 7, 2024

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

By Ellen Ruppel Shell | August 5, 2024

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em>The Decameron</em> Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

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The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

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Daisy Dunn on Sappho's Genre-Defying Verses and the Invention of the Term “Lesbian”

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From Senegal to the Virgin Islands: The Weirdness of Having Fun While Writing About Historical Trauma

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Mai Sennaar on Alfred Hitchcock, Cheikh Anta Diop, and an Unexpected Antidote to Writer’s Block

By Mai Sennaar | July 30, 2024

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

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“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

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Andrea Freeman on the Impact of Systematic Oppression on Indigenous Cuisine in the United States

By Andrea Freeman | July 24, 2024

What the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em> Reveals About Sumerian Society

What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society

Paul Cooper on Economic, Intellectual and Creative Development in the Ancient Near East

By Paul Cooper | July 24, 2024

A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

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Nate Powell on Book Bans and the Problem of American “Heroification”

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