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    Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

    By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
    American History

    5 Undersung Moments in History You Probably Didn’t Learn About in Class

    By Christopher Klein  June 7, 2019
    The Hub

    WWII historian James Holland selects the five best books about D-Day

    By Dan Sheehan  June 6, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

    By Jay Parini  June 6, 2019
    Democracy

    Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

    By Jonathan A. Rodden  June 6, 2019
    American History

    Antony DeCurtis on the Instruments Behind Iconic Rock ‘n’ Roll Moments

    By Anthony DeCurtis  June 5, 2019
    Queer History

    The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019

    By Charles Kaiser  June 5, 2019
    American History

    The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History

    By Tyler Mills  June 5, 2019
    The Cartels

    Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

    By Dan Werb  June 5, 2019
    American History

    Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

    By Jill Lepore  June 4, 2019
    Women's suffrage

    On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

    By Kate Lemay  June 4, 2019
    The Paranormal

    When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

    By Matt Tompkins  May 30, 2019
    Architecture

    On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York’s Skyline

    By Anthony Alofsin  May 29, 2019
    Literary History

    My Decade-Long Fascination with the Tale of Monica Lewinsky

    By Mandy Berman  May 29, 2019
    The Hub

    The most recent “crisis in the humanities” is really just a case of crossed wires.

    By Aaron Robertson  May 24, 2019
    Literary History

    On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

    By Jaime Fuller  May 24, 2019
    History of Science

    Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

    By Matthew Stanley  May 22, 2019
    Radicalism

    On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

    By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall  May 22, 2019
    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
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