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The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

Dovey Johnson Roundtree on Life at Spelman College

By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe | November 19, 2019

On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

Rachel Vorona Cote Considers the Miss Dashwoods

By Rachel Vorona Cote | November 18, 2019

Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither<br> Is It Dead

Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
Is It Dead

Nicola Gardini Refutes the Biases Towards the So-Called Dead Language

By Nicola Gardini | November 18, 2019

Adriano Olivetti, Industrialist, Typewriter King... Antifascist?

Adriano Olivetti, Industrialist, Typewriter King... Antifascist?

On Espionage and Resistance in World War II Italy

By Meryle Secrest | November 18, 2019

Between Pastureland and Progress: <br>On the Many Lives of an American City

Between Pastureland and Progress:
On the Many Lives of an American City

Sarah Wagner Tells a Tale of Lexington, Kentucky

By Sarah Wagner | November 15, 2019

The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana

The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana

Trapped Between High Society and the Freak Show

By John Woolf | November 15, 2019

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Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

By New Books Network | November 15, 2019

The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

By Mo Moulton | November 14, 2019

Let's Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

By Paul Anthony Jones | November 13, 2019

Life Inside Guantánamo: <br> An Oral History

Life Inside Guantánamo:
An Oral History

Testimonies from America's Most Infamous Prison

By Peter Jan Honigsberg | November 13, 2019

On the Missing History at New York's Battleship Intrepid Museum

On the Missing History at New York's Battleship Intrepid Museum

James W. Loewen Wonders What Happened to Vietnam

By James W. Loewen | November 13, 2019

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

John Richardson on getting to know “the antithesis of Picasso—cool, meditative, at peace.”

By John Richardson | November 13, 2019

On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

Bad Reviews, Disastrous Elections, and the Intellectual State of Play in 1964 New York

By Nicholas Buccola | November 12, 2019

It Turns Out There's Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

It Turns Out There's Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

When Bad Studies Become Pro-War Political Tools

By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkaz | November 12, 2019

Spanking, Signing, Reading: <br> On the Medieval Use of Hands

Spanking, Signing, Reading:
On the Medieval Use of Hands

When Aristotle Called Touch the Sense Necessary For Life, Was He Wrong?

By Jack Hartnell | November 12, 2019

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

Jeffrey Rosen Speaks with RBG on Abortion Rights and More

By Jeffrey Rosen | November 11, 2019

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