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Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

Martha Barnette Explores the Shared Proto-Indo-European Origins of a Diverse Group of Modern Languages

By Martha Barnette | August 6, 2025

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

Joshua Sharpe on the Horror and Aftermath of the 1985 Georgia Church Murders

By Joshua Sharpe | August 6, 2025

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

By Brittany Allen | August 5, 2025

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Nell Stevens on the Tichborne Claimant Fraud and Creating the Possibility of a Different World Through Fiction

By Nell Stevens | August 4, 2025

How Witi Ihimaera’s <em>The Whale Rider</em> Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People

By Shilo Kino | August 4, 2025

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Biologists named a sex pheromone found in mouse urine after Mr. Darcy.

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How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

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By Tanya Talaga | July 24, 2025

Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

Iain MacGregor on the Preparation and Aftershocks of the Attack That Marked the Beginning of the Nuclear Age

By Iain MacGregor | July 24, 2025

Why <em> Clueless </em> is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.

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On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

Benjamin Balthaser on Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the Paradoxes of Left-Wing Zionism

By Benjamin Balthaser | July 23, 2025

How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

Laura Poppick on the Power and Permanence of Nature's Coldest Element

By Laura Poppick | July 22, 2025

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