Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos on the Suspicious Timing of a Widowing and a Wedding

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Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Stacy Schiff In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | December 1, 2022

Joe Hagan on How the Death of Boredom Is the Biggest Loss of Our Generation

Joe Hagan on How the Death of Boredom Is the Biggest Loss of Our Generation

This Week on Twitterverse, a Show About Tweets and the Writers Who Send Them

By Twitterverse | December 1, 2022

The Challenge of Confronting Hitler’s Moral Stain on Europe

The Challenge of Confronting Hitler’s Moral Stain on Europe

Ian Kershaw on the Lasting Trauma of the Nazis’ War

By Ian Kershaw | December 1, 2022

In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

Josiah Ober in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 1, 2022

Iain MacGregor on Discovering the Untold Stories of Stalingrad’s Citizens

Iain MacGregor on Discovering the Untold Stories of Stalingrad’s Citizens

“I always wish to get under the skin and discover the smell, the terror, the relief and the joy ordinary people felt.”

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Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

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Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

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“The most magnificent funeral of the century.”

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On Preserving the Lenape Language (and Trying to Get Face Time with an NYC Mayor)

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Margie Cook in Conversation with Preservationist Jim Rementer

By Margie Cook | November 28, 2022

How the 1977 Siege of Washington Marks the Beginning of Our Preoccupation With “Terrorist” Violence and Real-Time News

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Shahan Mufti in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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How the Slavery-Like Conditions of Convict Leasing Flourished After the Collapse of Reconstruction

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Jefferson Cowie on the Terror That Filled the Void Left by the Retreat of Federal Authority in the South

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How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America

How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America

And Won the Support of Nasser’s Egypt

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