• History

    Nationalism

    In American Empire, You’re Either Invading or Being Invaded

    By Steven W. Thrasher  October 3, 2024
    European History

    How the Future Henry V Began His Royal Career

    By Dan Jones  October 3, 2024
    Art History

    What the Supreme Court Can Learn From a 14th-Century Italian City-State

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 3, 2024
    Authoritarianism

    The Price of “Progress.” On Development, Displacement and Dictatorship in the Amazon

    By José Henrique Bortoluci  October 1, 2024
    The Hub

    Attention Austen fans: Now you can have tea with Lizzy Bennet, IRL.

    By Brittany Allen  September 30, 2024
    Food History

    Pilsner Goes to America: How Beer Got Big in the 19th Century

    By Jeffrey M. Pilcher  September 30, 2024
    Moral Panics

    Life Imitates Art: On The Sorrows of Young Werther, Moral Panic and the Power of Books

    By Ed Simon  September 27, 2024
    Antiquities

    How Evangelical Christians Seek to Influence American Politics Through… Bible Museums?

    By Roberta Mazza  September 27, 2024
    Alternative Medicine

    How an Eccentric Doctor Began His Quest For Utopia in Weimar Berlin

    By Abbott Kahler  September 26, 2024
    Literary History

    An Expat’s Homebase: How the Iconic Village Voice Bookshop in Paris Launched Lit Mags

    By Odile Hellier  September 26, 2024
    Robots

    Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon

    By Nicole Kobie  September 26, 2024
    Environmental History

    Freedom and Responsibility: Why Earth’s Survival Depends on All of Us

    By Sunil Amrith  September 25, 2024
    Espionage

    Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

    By Elyse Graham  September 25, 2024
    Urbanism

    How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

    By Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis  September 25, 2024
    History of Science

    The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

    By John MacNeill Miller  September 25, 2024
    The Labor Movement

    What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

    By Jeff Schuhrke  September 25, 2024
    Palestinian Literature

    Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

    By Isabella Hammad  September 24, 2024
    White Supremacy

    How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

    By Joel Edward Goza  September 23, 2024
    Women in History

    Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

    By Sonia Purnell  September 20, 2024
    Family History

    Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

    By Kim Liao  September 20, 2024
    New York City

    How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

    By Prithi Kanakamedala  September 18, 2024
    Music history

    How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

    By David Browne  September 18, 2024
    Political History

    Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

    By Timothy Snyder  September 17, 2024
    Cundill History Prize

    A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

    By David Van Reybrouck  September 17, 2024
    World War II

    Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

    By Richard Flanagan  September 16, 2024
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