• History

    The Hub

    The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week…

    By Aaron Robertson  May 20, 2019
    Politics

    In India, One Publisher’s High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

    By Liesl Schwabe  May 20, 2019
    The Hub

    L. Frank Baum’s first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

    By Emily Temple  May 17, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    Moving Through New York’s Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

    By George Chauncey  May 17, 2019
    Literary History

    Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

    By Leo Damrosch  May 16, 2019
    American History

    Inside San Francisco’s Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

    By Julia Flynn Siler  May 15, 2019
    American History

    Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

    By Susan Ware  May 13, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

    By Jeanna Kadlec  May 13, 2019
    Plagues

    How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

    By David K. Randall  May 9, 2019
    American Presidents

    We Have Always Loved
    Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

    By Douglas Brinkley  May 8, 2019
    The West

    On the Unsung Lives
    of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

    By Gordon H. Chang  May 8, 2019
    Literary History

    On Founding One of Literature’s Most Beautiful Collections

    By Amos Reichman  May 7, 2019
    Royal Baby

    Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
    the British Monarchy?)

    By Robert Morrison  May 6, 2019
    Travel Writing

    Revolutionary Travel Writer
    Georg Forster’s Passionate Beginnings

    By Jürgen Goldstein  May 6, 2019
    Democracy

    Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

    By Jon Meacham  May 6, 2019
    Master Classes

    Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All

    By Mateo Askaripour  May 2, 2019
    Gay Rights

    Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

    By Edmund White  April 30, 2019
    Literary History

    The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer’s Life

    By Marion Turner  April 29, 2019
    The Arctic

    Like Twitter But Cold: On the Literary Culture of Arctic Expeditions

    By Hester Blum  April 26, 2019
    The American Midwest

    The View from the Middle of Everything

    By Kristin L. Hoganson  April 25, 2019
    Empire

    The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark
    As We Thought

    By Simon Winder  April 24, 2019
    Journalism

    How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US

    By Jeremy Treglown  April 23, 2019
    Shakespeare

    Was Shakespeare Agnostic About
    the Afterlife?

    By John S. Garrison  April 23, 2019
    The Nuclear Age

    The Real Story Behind the Creation
    of the Atomic Bomb

    By Aaron Tucker  April 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Historical Fiction Can Be As
    Urgent As the News

    By Joshua Furst  April 16, 2019
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