• History

    The Hub

    A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

    By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Hans Onderwater on the Hunger Winter in the German-Occupied Netherlands

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   July 15, 2021
    The Hub

    “It was sickening”: Read Chekhov’s withering review of his own first play’s opening night.

    By Walker Caplan  July 14, 2021
    Migrations

    How Sicilians Are Mobilizing in Support of Migrants’ Rights

    By Jamie Mackay  July 14, 2021
    Queer History

    On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

    By Rae Nudson  July 14, 2021
    Neuroscience

    The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

    By Scott A. Small  July 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a virtual tour of Walden Pond.

    By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Powell’s Books is celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a curated collection of 50 books.

    By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
    TV

    The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

    By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross  July 12, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

    By Emil’ Keme  July 12, 2021
    Travel

    Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

    By Walker Caplan  July 9, 2021
    Jewish Literature

    What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

    By Ilan Stavans  July 9, 2021
    Keen On

    David Potter on What Lenin and Luther Can Teach Us About Our Age of Disruption

    By Keen On  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.

    By Walker Caplan  July 8, 2021
    Friendship

    When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

    By Gary Ginsberg  July 8, 2021
    Beauty

    “A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry

    By Lucy Jane Santos  July 8, 2021
    The Hub

    A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

    By Walker Caplan  July 7, 2021
    Activism

    We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

    By Julia Baird  July 7, 2021
    Italian History

    In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

    By Tim Parks  July 7, 2021
    French History

    On the Dancing Craze That
    Swept Post-WWI Paris

    By Dominique Kalifa  July 6, 2021
    Queer Literature

    On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

    By William di Canzio  July 6, 2021
    Women's History

    A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

    By Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi  July 6, 2021
    Racism

    Theodore R. Johnson on Racism’s Existential Threat to the Promise of America

    By Theodore R. Johnson  July 2, 2021
    Activism

    When Disability Rights Activists Staged a 25-Day Sit-in at a Government Building (Alongside the Black Panthers)

    By Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner  July 2, 2021
    American History

    What Makes America a Nation? (And If It Isn’t, What Could?)

    By George Packer  July 2, 2021
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