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Have We Run Out of Useful Lessons From History?

Have We Run Out of Useful Lessons From History?

Andrew Keen on Humanity’s Capacity to Make Entirely New Mistakes

By Andrew Keen | June 10, 2022

From Mary Churchill’s Diary: An Intimate Glimpse of World War II

From Mary Churchill’s Diary: An Intimate Glimpse of World War II

“Glory Hallelujah!! A delicious poke in the snoot for Hitler.”

By Mary Churchill | June 10, 2022

Unhealthy, Smelly, and Strange: Why Italians Avoided Tomatoes for Centuries

Unhealthy, Smelly, and Strange: Why Italians Avoided Tomatoes for Centuries

William Alexander on the Tomato's Rocky Road from Exotic Curiosity to Culinary Staple

By William Alexander | June 9, 2022

How Did People Get to Britain 950,000 Years Ago?

How Did People Get to Britain 950,000 Years Ago?

Ian Morris on “Proto-Britain” Which Was Once Part of the European Continent (Literally)

By Ian Morris | June 9, 2022

How Utica Became a City Where Refugees Came to Rebuild

How Utica Became a City Where Refugees Came to Rebuild

Susan Hartman Tells the Story of Some Remarkable Migrations

By Susan Hartman | June 9, 2022

Combining Old and New Technology to Get a Fresh Perspective on D-Day

Combining Old and New Technology to Get a Fresh Perspective on D-Day

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | June 9, 2022

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Maryland's public libraries just launched a digital guide to Indigenous Maryland.

By Corinne Segal | June 8, 2022

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2022

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

By James Patterson | June 8, 2022

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Charles McGrath on the Ritualizing of Idleness

By Charles McGrath | June 8, 2022

How Jazz Fueled a Nationwide Dance Craze—and Made Its Way to Paris

How Jazz Fueled a Nationwide Dance Craze—and Made Its Way to Paris

Stuart Isacoff on the Music That Captured the Country

By Stuart Isacoff | June 8, 2022

Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Ian Morris in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination

Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination

Jefferson Morley in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

What the Ancient Greeks <em>Thought</em> They Understood About Blood

What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

Dr. Dhun Sethna on Homer, Hippocrates, and the Vascular System

By Dr. Dhun Sethna | June 7, 2022

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Levi Vonk on All God's Dangers and the Power of Collaborative Oral History

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

“To write was, and still is, in some sense, to tattoo, to ink script upon skin.”

By Lars Horn | June 6, 2022

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