• History

    Poets

    Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

    By Joe Moshenska  December 8, 2021
    Art History

    On the Birth of the Art Instinct

    By John-Paul Stonard  December 8, 2021
    Medieval History

    The Hidden Agency of Women in Medieval Stories, from Beowulf to Guthlac’s Life

    By Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry  December 8, 2021
    Natural Resources

    The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

    By Tabitha Lasley  December 8, 2021
    Psychology

    The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 7, 2021
    Whiteness

    How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

    By Anna Della Subin  December 7, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

    By Emergence Magazine  December 6, 2021
    Food History

    A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

    By Massimo Montanari  December 6, 2021
    Geography

    The Boundaries Between Nations Are Blurrier Than We Think

    By James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti  December 6, 2021
    2020 Election

    Stealing Georgia: Trump Gets Desperate, Kanye’s Publicist Shows Up on Ruby Freeman’s Doorstep, and… 28,000 Missing Votes?

    By Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague  December 4, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?

    By Just the Right Book   December 2, 2021
    Archives

    On the Little-Known Archives Keeping Civil Rights Activists’ Stories Alive

    By Suzanne Cope  December 1, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 1, 2021
    Race

    On the Monumental, Lasting Impact of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Games

    By John Feinstein  November 30, 2021
    Activism

    How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

    By Kaya Oakes  November 30, 2021
    Literary History

    The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

    By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
    Arab Literature

    How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

    By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
    Book Dreams

    On the Life of Belle da Costa Greene, Visionary Librarian and Democratizer of Museums

    By Book Dreams  November 29, 2021
    Keen On

    Roderick Beaton on the Greek Revolution of 1821

    By Keen On  November 29, 2021
    Civil Rights

    We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

    By John Lewis  November 24, 2021
    Folk Music

    How Black Spiritual Songs Gave Rise to New Musical Genres

    By Joseph Horowitz  November 24, 2021
    Journalism

    Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Weird, Brief Stint as a Local Sports Editor

    By David S. Wills  November 23, 2021
    Language

    In Search of Words for the Most Obscure Sorrows

    By John Koenig  November 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

    By Walker Caplan  November 22, 2021
    Conspiracies

    What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

    By Jefferson Morley  November 22, 2021
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