• History

    On Technology

    Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

    By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
    Beauty

    More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

    By Zahra Hankir  December 5, 2023
    Music

    “The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

    By Dylan Jones  December 5, 2023
    Early Humans

    How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

    By John Charles Chasteen  December 4, 2023
    Manuscripts

    “Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

    By Christopher de Hamel  November 30, 2023
    Music history

    How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

    By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill  November 30, 2023
    Excerpt

    Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

    By Michel Faber  November 29, 2023
    Literary History

    Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 29, 2023
    Women's History

    Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

    By Emma Southon  November 28, 2023
    Archeology

    Material World: What Prehistoric Possessions Tell Us About Ourselves

    By Chip Colwell  November 28, 2023
    Literary History

    When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

    By Charles Scribner III  November 28, 2023
    Booksellers

    From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

    By Literary Hub  November 28, 2023
    Urbanism

    How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

    By Jake Berman  November 27, 2023
    Jewish History

    The Horrific Factory Fire That Killed Jewish Immigrants and Forced the Garment Industry to Alter Its Practices

    By Steven Ujifusa  November 27, 2023
    American History

    How a Mutiny on the Somers Changed America

    By Richard Snow  November 21, 2023
    Chinese Food

    The Marvels of Qu: What Makes Chinese Food and Drink Unique

    By Fuchsia Dunlop  November 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    How the Publicity Campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

    By Paul Morton  November 20, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Ireland

    A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

    By Tim Robinson  November 17, 2023
    Black Feminism

    How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

    By Courtney Thorsson  November 17, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    How the NYPD Attempted to Navigate Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in the Early 20th Century

    By Matthew Guariglia  November 17, 2023
    Geniuses

    Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

    By Samuel Graydon  November 16, 2023
    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

    By Ellen Adams  November 15, 2023
    Archives

    Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

    By Katherine Churchill  November 15, 2023
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