Literary Hub » History

How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

Henry Hemming on Bloody Sunday, Frank Hegarty, and Life in the IRA

By Henry Hemming | April 15, 2024

Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

Adam E. Casey on America, China, and the Future of Revolutionary Rule

By Adam E. Casey | April 15, 2024

How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

Hampton Sides on Britain’s Generations-Long Search for the Northwest Passage

By Hampton Sides | April 15, 2024

A syllabus for fans of <em>You Must Remember This.</em>

A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

By Brittany Allen | April 12, 2024

How Deregulation Destroyed Indie Rock Across America

How Deregulation Destroyed Indie Rock Across America

Tom Maxwell on the Corporate Capture of Regional Radio Stations

By Tom Maxwell | April 12, 2024

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen...” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen...” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

Kelly E. Hill on Women Defying Societal Norms in the Nineteenth Century

By Kelly E. Hill | April 12, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

What Obituaries Can Tell Us About How the World Views Artists

By Jim Moske | April 11, 2024

A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

By Rebecca Solnit | April 9, 2024

When a 24-Year-Old Ian Fleming Went to Moscow to Cover a “Show” Trial

By Nicholas Shakespeare | April 9, 2024

What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

Clare Beams on the Dark Legacy of a Purported Pregnancy Miracle Drug

By Clare Beams | April 9, 2024

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

“Poetry’s belatedness hauntingly echoes international law’s belatedness when it comes to defining genocide.”

By Philip Metres | April 9, 2024

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

By Mairead Small Staid | April 8, 2024

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

Clair Wills Considers the Making of Her Mother’s Family Fables

By Clair Wills | April 3, 2024

The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”

By Hua Hsu | March 28, 2024

The Sickness of Life: On the Problems with Anti-Natalism

The Sickness of Life: On the Problems with Anti-Natalism

Ben Ware Considers the Emptiness of Opting Out

By Ben Ware | March 26, 2024

In Search of the Mona Lisa of Rum: Finding the World’s Oldest (and Dustiest) Vintage

In Search of the Mona Lisa of Rum: Finding the World’s Oldest (and Dustiest) Vintage

Aaron Goldfarb on Harewood Rum, Prohibition, and Stephen Remsberg’s Hunt for a Legendary Liquor

By Aaron Goldfarb | March 22, 2024

« First ‹ Previous 47 48 49 505152 53 54 55 Next ›Last »

Page 51 of 280