• History

    Criminal Justice

    An Understanding Ear: How Martha Goddard Became An Advocate For Victimized Women

    Pagan Kennedy on the Activist Awakening of the Woman Who Helped Develop the Rape Kit

     
    By Pagan Kennedy  January 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Vampires, pranks and podcasts: here are some ideas to reboot 2025’s public domain books.

    By James Folta  January 16, 2025
    Mathematics

    How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

    By Raúl Rojas  January 15, 2025
    Segregation

    Beyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lines

    By Michelle Adams  January 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

    By Zeinab Badawi  January 15, 2025
    Forgery

    The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

    By Bradford Morrow  January 14, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    At this year’s MLA convention, protestors put Palestine on the docket.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    Class

    My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  January 10, 2025
    On Race

    How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

    By Mary Frances Phillips  January 10, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

    James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

    By James H. Sweet  January 17, 2025
    Family Histories

    From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

    By Emily Yates-Doerr  January 9, 2025
    Ancient History

    What Roman Coins Reveal About the People Who Made Them

    By Gareth Harney  January 8, 2025
    literary criticism

    Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

    By Lauren Groff  January 7, 2025
    Travel

    Say hello to your new favorite holiday—Plough Monday!

    By Brittany Allen  January 6, 2025
    The Hub

    In an overwhelming vote, the American Historical Association voted to condemn scholasticide in Gaza.

    By Brittany Allen  January 6, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Travails of Maria the Beauty: On the Plight of Indigenous Women in the Brazilian Amazon

    By Alex Cuadros  January 6, 2025
    Climate Change

    Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

    By Lauren E. Oakes  January 6, 2025
    Gardening

    Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

    The Author of “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children” in Conversation with Sandra Guzmán

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Gaza

    Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2024
    Fascism

    How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

    By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
    Moral Panics

    On “White Slavery” and the Roots of the Contemporary Sex Trafficking Panic

    Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam Explore the Racist Roots of a Moral Panic

    By Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam  December 12, 2024
    Food Writing

    Learning to Make the World’s Rarest Pasta

    By Eliot Stein  December 11, 2024
    Monuments

    Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

    By Brandon Shimoda  December 11, 2024
    Agriculture

    Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

    By Anne Mendelson  January 9, 2025
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