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Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

From the Aztec Empire to the Birth of Modern Greece, Some of the Best in Contemporary History

By Literary Hub | October 14, 2020

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Anaïs Duplan on Popular Language, Outside Figures, and the Struggle for Recognition

By Anaïs Duplan | October 14, 2020

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger

By H.W. Brands | October 14, 2020

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

From Kim Ghattas's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Black Wave

By Kim Ghattas | October 14, 2020

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

From Richard M. Eaton's Cundill Prize-Nominated
India in the Persianate Age

By Richard M. Eaton | October 14, 2020

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

From Rashid Khalidi's Cundill Prize-Nominated
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By Rashid Khalidi | October 14, 2020

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On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

By Roderick Beaton | October 14, 2020

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

By Vincent Brown | October 14, 2020

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

By Paul Lay | October 14, 2020

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Unworthy Republic

By Claudio Saunt | October 14, 2020

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

From Kerri K. Greenidge's Cundill-Prize Nominated Black Radical

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

From Julius Margolin's Memoir of Life in the Gulag

By Julius Margolin | October 13, 2020

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

With Appearances From James Baldwin, Henry James, and More

By Soledad Fox Maura | October 13, 2020

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's <em>Nightwood</em>

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

Introducing Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books, a Podcast Hosted by Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | October 13, 2020

What We've Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

What We've Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

This Week on Time to Eat the Dogs

By Time to Eat the Dogs | October 13, 2020

When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 12, 2020

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