• History

    World War II

    Filthy, Smelly, Sleep, Repeat: On the Challenges of Fighting Inside a Tank

    By James Holland  November 17, 2021
    Great Authors

    How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

    By Cathy Curtis  November 16, 2021
    Comics

    Tracing the Internet’s Enormous Impact on American Comics

    By Jeremy Dauber  November 16, 2021
    Farming

    Writing About the Small Farming Life in the Shadow of Climate Change

    By Patrick Laurie  November 16, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    When Young Elvis Met the Legendary B.B. King

    By Daniel de Visé  November 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Paul Cartledge on the Forgotten Greek City That Shaped Modern Civilization

    By Keen On  November 16, 2021
    Beyond the Page

    How Lincoln Broke the Constitution

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  November 16, 2021
    Writing Women

    How Misogyny and Religious Bigotry Have Influenced the Historical Portrayal of the Female Experience

    By Lucy Jago  November 16, 2021
    Priorities

    Stop Obsessing: A Reading List for Finding Joy in Irrelevance

    By Amy Leach  November 16, 2021
    American History

    Lincoln’s Dictatorship: How the President Broke the Constitutional Compact in Order to Save It

    By Noah Feldman  November 15, 2021
    Parenthood

    The Very Real Correlation Between Bilingualism and Advanced Executive Function

    By Masha Rumer  November 15, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on the Migration of Trees and the Impact on Human and Ecological Communities

    By Emergence Magazine  November 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

    By Walker Caplan  November 12, 2021
    Anthropology

    The Dawn of Everything Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

    By David Graeber and David Wengrow  November 12, 2021
    American History

    The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

    By H.W. Brands  November 12, 2021
    Empire

    How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

    By Tim Marshall  November 12, 2021
    Anthropology

    How Homo erectus Was, and Was Not, Like Modern-Day Humans

    By Henry Gee  November 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

    By Keen On  November 12, 2021
    Westerns

    The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

    By John Boessenecker  November 11, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    Why We Need to Rethink Afro-Indigenous History in the United States

    By Kyle T. Mays  November 11, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On Class Conflict and Public School Boys

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Who will buy the extremely rare concept art book for Jorodowsky’s unproduced Dune?

    By Walker Caplan  November 10, 2021
    Philosophy

    On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

    By Robert Meagher  November 10, 2021
    Education

    How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

    By Robert A. Gross  November 10, 2021
    Libraries

    Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was… Kind of a Dump

    By Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen  November 10, 2021
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