How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

A Brief History of Selling the Future

By Ryan Mungia | February 11, 2021

To Unify a Divided (New) Nation: The Early Days of George Washington's Presidency

To Unify a Divided (New) Nation: The Early Days of George Washington's Presidency

David O. Stewart on the Construction of the Highest Office

By David O. Stewart | February 11, 2021

On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

Gene Luen Yang Returns to the Adventures of Sun Wukong,
the Monkey King

By Gene Luen Yang | February 11, 2021

On the First All-Black Parachute Infantry Battalion, the Triple Nickles

On the First All-Black Parachute Infantry Battalion, the Triple Nickles

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | February 11, 2021

Is this cancel culture? Josh Hawley vs. The 1619 Project

Is this cancel culture? Josh Hawley vs. The 1619 Project

By Jonny Diamond | February 10, 2021

The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women<br> Could Vote

The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women
Could Vote

Mira Ptacin on the Ambitions of Victoria Woodhull

By Mira Ptacin | February 10, 2021

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When Do Unspoken Social Rules Become Fashion Laws?

By Richard Thompson Ford | February 10, 2021

How the Nuclear Family Exploited Unwed Mothers

By Keen On | February 10, 2021

How James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell Became a Negro League Superstar

By Lonnie Wheeler | February 10, 2021

Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

Christine Leigh Heyrman Unpacks an Unlikely Calvinist Love Triangle

By Christine Leigh Heyrman | February 10, 2021

Rare and lurid document of 18th-century English queerness discovered.

Rare and lurid document of 18th-century English queerness discovered.

By Jonny Diamond | February 9, 2021

A Brief History of Metaphor in <br>Persian Poetry

A Brief History of Metaphor in
Persian Poetry

Dick Davis on Literary Forms That Have Lasted a Thousand Years

By Dick Davis | February 9, 2021

Boundaries and Care: On Touring French Pharmacies Before the Pandemic

Boundaries and Care: On Touring French Pharmacies Before the Pandemic

Lucie Elven Charts the Research Process of Her Latest Book

By Lucie Elven | February 9, 2021

When Talking About Poetry Online <br>Goes Very Wrong

When Talking About Poetry Online
Goes Very Wrong

On Ciaran Carson and the Importance of Low-Stakes Conversations in the “Small Back Room”

By Wayne Miller | February 8, 2021

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

Urvi Kumbhat Maps a Personal Genealogy of the Fruit

By Urvi Kumbhat | February 8, 2021

Fleeing the Cambodian Genocide for the False Promise of the American Dream

Fleeing the Cambodian Genocide for the False Promise of the American Dream

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | February 8, 2021

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