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How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | November 4, 2020

Growing Up in the Soviet Union's Hero City

Growing Up in the Soviet Union's Hero City

Or: Self-Portrait with Madonna by the Palace of the Republic

By Valzhyna Mort | November 3, 2020

On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | November 3, 2020

Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

In Conversation with Julia Ringo on the Well-Versed Podcast

By Well-Versed | November 3, 2020

How Conventional Conflicts Become Nuclear Wars

How Conventional Conflicts Become Nuclear Wars

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | November 3, 2020

White Supremacy Has Always Been More Powerful Than Its Loudest Proponents

White Supremacy Has Always Been More Powerful Than Its Loudest Proponents

Issac Bailey, Kathleen Belew, and Connor Towne O'Neill on the White Power Resurgence

By Literary Hub | November 2, 2020

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A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

Roy A. Meals, Bone Expert, Has the Skinny

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When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

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A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

How New York's Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

How New York's Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

Eileen Markey in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 29, 2020

Please Don't Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

Please Don't Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

Claudio Lomnitz on Borders as Animal Enclosures

By Claudio Lomnitz | October 29, 2020

Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 29, 2020

On the Great Cairo Fire of 1952

On the Great Cairo Fire of 1952

From the new book by Amin Maalouf

By Amin Maalouf | October 29, 2020

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