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

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

Mo Moulton on the Legendary Mutual Admiration Society

By Mo Moulton | November 14, 2019

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

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

If You Love Someone, Give Them the Sheep's Eye

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

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Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III

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Reading Beyond the Wall: 7 Acclaimed Books About and From East Germany

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On the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Paul Vidich on the Timeline of a Historic Night

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How Lou Sullivan's Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

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Callum Angus on Sullivan's Recently Released Diaries, AIDS, Transitioning, and More

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On Harriet Tubman's Final Escape Mission

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A November Snowstorm and a Last-Minute Change of Plans

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Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

Nathalia Holt on What It Took to Break Into Animation in the 1930s

By Nathalia Holt | November 8, 2019

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

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By Susannah Cahalan | November 7, 2019

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