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What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

Kate Finn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 10, 2022

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”

By Christina Lamb | August 9, 2022

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Bernadette Jiwa on Her Grandmother’s Death and the Need to Keep History Close

By Bernadette Jiwa | August 9, 2022

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

By Jonny Diamond | August 8, 2022

How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

Rinker Buck Explores the Flatboating Era

By Rinker Buck | August 8, 2022

“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

“Critiques of late-stage capitalism don’t address how people of color get pitted against each other.”

By Vanessa Hua | August 8, 2022

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We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

By Andrew Keen | August 5, 2022

Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

By New Books Network | August 5, 2022

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

By Mark Braude | August 4, 2022

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

Angus Robertson on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Experiences in the Heart of the Holy Roman Empire

By Angus Robertson | August 4, 2022

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Kevin Boyle in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

Emma Seckel on the Weightiness of History and the Vastness of Landscape

By Emma Seckel | August 3, 2022

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Stefan Dercon in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 2, 2022

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

Daisy Hildyard on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 1, 2022

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 1, 2022

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