• History

    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
    The Hub

    On the terrifying hoax execution that haunted Dostoevsky’s writing.

    By Walker Caplan  February 10, 2022
    American Politics

    What Will It Take to Resuscitate American Democracy?

    By Stephen Marche  February 10, 2022
    Politics

    Inside Africatown’s Fight to Create a National Monument for the Enslaved

    By Ben Raines  February 10, 2022
    Keen On

    Linda Hirshman on How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

    By Keen On  February 10, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Ian Urbina on the Lawlessness of the High Seas

    By Book Dreams  February 10, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Was the Battle of Manila Necessary?

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   February 10, 2022
    Nature Writing

    How Rachel Carson Carved Out a Space to Become a Full-Time Writer

    By James R. Gaines  February 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Colette Brooks on the Dangers of Misremembering Our Past

    By Keen On  February 9, 2022
    Keen On

    A.J. Baime on Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret

    By Keen On  February 9, 2022
    The Hub

    On the 1863 novel that predicted the Internet, cars, skyscrapers, and electronic dance music.

    By Walker Caplan  February 8, 2022
    Keen On

    William Dalrymple on the First Global Corporate Power

    By Keen On  February 8, 2022
    Founding Fathers

    How Slavery Was Written Out of the Declaration of Independence

    By Willard Sterne Randall  February 8, 2022
    The Hub

    “I do not think it is a good story.” Never ask Charles Dickens for writing advice.

    By Walker Caplan  February 7, 2022
    Economics

    Death By Price Tag: The Commodities Bubble Explained

    By Rupert Russell  February 7, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Who Gets to Define History?

    By Emergence Magazine  February 7, 2022
    The Hub

    Want to see Charlotte Brontë’s “sensual” outfit?

    By Walker Caplan  February 4, 2022
    The Hub

    When Gertrude Stein refused to take William James’s philosophy final (and still got an A).

    By Walker Caplan  February 4, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    Amor Towles on Bringing a Historical Setting to Life

    By Amor Towles  February 4, 2022
    Beer

    The Mysterious Origins of the World’s Oldest Commercial Beer

    By Dan Saladino  February 3, 2022
    Ancient History

    What Can a Dead Egyptian Pharaoh Teach Us About the Modern World?

    By Christina Riggs  February 3, 2022
    Lit Hub Radio

    Chasing History by Carl Bernstein, Read by the Author and Robert Petkoff

    By Behind the Mic   February 3, 2022
    The Hub

    An explosive new Anne Frank book has been put on pause after its research was called into question.

    By Walker Caplan  February 2, 2022
    Food

    Food Is Its Own Kind
    of Language

    By Charmaine Wilkerson  February 2, 2022
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