• History

    Black Activism

    Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

    By Aja Monet  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Kate Chopin threw her most famous character under the bus in this ironic rebuttal to critics.

    By Corinne Segal  August 23, 2022
    American History

    What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

    By Dan Bouk  August 23, 2022
    The Holocaust

    The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

    By Linda Kinstler  August 23, 2022
    Queer Community

    A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

    By Rasheed Newson  August 23, 2022
    Film History

    Marguerite Duras on Writing the Screenplay for Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour

    By Marguerite Duras  August 22, 2022
    Keen On

    How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
    Keen On

    What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
    Fishing

    How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

    By Kirk Wallace Johnson  August 22, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

    By Maud Newton  August 18, 2022
    Children's Literature

    Japanese American Incarceration for Children: Brandon Shimoda on Reading with His Daughter

    By Brandon Shimoda  August 18, 2022
    Cosmology

    How We Humans Created the Universe

    By Moiya McTier  August 17, 2022
    Jewish History

    On James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Irish Jewish Community

    By Jo Glanville  August 17, 2022
    Political Violence

    How the Republican Party Embraced Political Violence Before January 6th

    By Dana Milbank  August 15, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Behind the Scenes of Virginia Woolf’s First Self-Published Story

    By History of Literature  August 15, 2022
    Medieval History

    A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

    By Arran Lomas  August 12, 2022
    Adaptations

    Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

    By Sheri Fink  August 12, 2022
    Keen On

    How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

    By Andrew Keen  August 12, 2022
    Keen On

    How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

    By Keen On  August 12, 2022
    Book Dreams

    The Overlooked History of the Civil Rights Queen, Constance Baker Motley

    By Book Dreams  August 11, 2022
    Women's History

    When Silence is Heard: Telling the Stories of Women During the Partition of India

    By Melody Razak  August 11, 2022
    Queer History

    Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

    By Nona Willis Aronowitz  August 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Remembering the US War in Afghanistan and the Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter

    By Keen On  August 11, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Battle of Atlantic, 80 Years Later

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   August 11, 2022
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