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Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses</em>

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Stephanie McCarter on Finding New Meaning in a Classic

By Stephanie McCarter | November 8, 2022

How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

Before Geronimo Became the Apaches’ Fabled War Commander, He Lost Everything

By H.W. Brands | November 8, 2022

On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

Joe Coscarelli Considers the City’s Alternating History of Oppression and Opportunity

By Joe Coscarelli | November 7, 2022

What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

Adam Mendelsohn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 7, 2022

Four Ukrainian Writers on Literature, Solidarity, and the Future of Justice

Four Ukrainian Writers on Literature, Solidarity, and the Future of Justice

“I believe in our truth, and the truth is on our side.”

By Chytomo Staff | November 7, 2022

Why Can’t America Escape Its Racist Past?

Why Can’t America Escape Its Racist Past?

Ellis Cose in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 7, 2022

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How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

Stacy Schiff on the Journalistic Pseudonyms of an American Revolutionary

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How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness

How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness

Emily Tamkin on Jewish Communities and Racial Politics

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Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

Ousmane Power-Green on Bringing His Daughter to Alabama

By Ousmane Power-Green | November 3, 2022

A Brief Oral History of Rakim and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

A Brief Oral History of Rakim and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

Jonathan Abrams on Lyricism and Mixing In Your Own Story

By Jonathan Abrams | November 3, 2022

How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

Samantha Cole in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 3, 2022

Accumulated Memory: Ken Burns on the Intersection of Individual Intimacy and National Narrative

Accumulated Memory: Ken Burns on the Intersection of Individual Intimacy and National Narrative

“Rhymes of race, freedom, innovation, politics, war, leadership, prejudice, art, and scandal recur vividly and insistently.”

By Ken Burns | November 2, 2022

Reading Langston Hughes’s Wartime Reporting From the Spanish Civil War

Reading Langston Hughes’s Wartime Reporting From the Spanish Civil War

Matthew F. Delmont on How Black Americans Warned the World of Fascism

By Matthew F. Delmont | November 2, 2022

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