• History

    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
    Pets

    Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

    By Andrew Hager  August 10, 2022
    Abortion

    From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law

    By Elisabeth Griffith  August 10, 2022
    Keen On

    What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

    By Keen On  August 10, 2022
    War Reporting

    Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

    By Christina Lamb  August 9, 2022
    Abortion Rights

    Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

    By Bernadette Jiwa  August 9, 2022
    The Hub

    How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

    By Jonny Diamond  August 8, 2022
    American History

    How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

    By Rinker Buck  August 8, 2022
    On Race

    “Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

    By Vanessa Hua  August 8, 2022
    Keen On

    We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

    By Andrew Keen  August 5, 2022
    New Books Network

    Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

    By New Books Network  August 5, 2022
    Keen On

    On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

    By Keen On  August 4, 2022
    Art History

    How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

    By Mark Braude  August 4, 2022
    18th Century History

    18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

    By Angus Robertson  August 4, 2022
    Keen On

    Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

    By Keen On  August 4, 2022
    Folklore

    From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

    By Emma Seckel  August 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

    By Keen On  August 2, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

    By Emergence Magazine  August 1, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

    By History of Literature  August 1, 2022
    Indigenous Lit

    Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

    By Oscar Hokeah  July 28, 2022
    Political Science

    Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

    By Eve Fairbanks  July 28, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   July 28, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

    By Just the Right Book   July 28, 2022
    Women in Science

    “She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

    By Kathy Kleiman  July 27, 2022
    World War II

    On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

    By Jerry W. Carlson  July 27, 2022
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