• History

    Geopolitics

    On the Very Real Dangers of Artificial Borders

    By Patrick Strickland  February 23, 2022
    Friendship

    Sarah Weinman on the Not-So-Unlikely Friendship Between Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, Jr.

    By Sarah Weinman  February 22, 2022
    Archives

    How Archivists Uncover the Clues to History

    By Isaac Fellman  February 22, 2022
    The Hub

    How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

    By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2022
    Victorian Literature

    On the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    By Vidya Krishnan  February 18, 2022
    Craft

    Erik Larson on Finding a New Angle on History

    By Erik Larson  February 18, 2022
    Open Source

    The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

    By Open Source  February 18, 2022
    History of Reading

    How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

    By Dennis Duncan  February 18, 2022
    The Hub

    Want an app to read you the Canterbury Tales in Middle English? You’re in luck.

    By Walker Caplan  February 17, 2022
    Aristocracy

    The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

    By Catherine Ostler  February 17, 2022
    Chinese Literature

    What Is China Reading Right Now?

    By Megan Walsh  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

    By Anne F. Hyde  February 17, 2022
    The Hub

    Read President Obama’s citation of Maya Angelou when awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

    By Walker Caplan  February 16, 2022
    Vikings

    Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

    By Bernd Brunner  February 16, 2022
    Classics

    How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

    By Erin Morgenstern  February 16, 2022
    Film History

    David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

    By David Wright Faladé  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    The Hub

    A brief history of heart-shaped books.

    By Walker Caplan  February 14, 2022
    Queer History

    Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

    By Grace Lavery  February 14, 2022
    Protest

    Activist Learning: How Anti-Vietnam War Academics Reinvented the Strike

    By Ellen Schrecker  February 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Dara Horn on How Jewish History is Exploited to Flatter the Living

    By Keen On  February 14, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

    By History of Literature  February 14, 2022
    Keen On

    How an Ancient Piece of Jewelry Changed Our Concept of Viking History

    By Keen On  February 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

    By Keen On  February 11, 2022
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