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The 18th-Century Quaker Farmboy Who Laid the Groundwork for Atomic Theory

The 18th-Century Quaker Farmboy Who Laid the Groundwork for Atomic Theory

Harry Cliff on How John Dalton Contributed to the Most Powerful Idea in Science

By Harry Cliff | August 10, 2021

Read Tove Jansson’s short story composed of bizarre fan letters.

Read Tove Jansson’s short story composed of bizarre fan letters.

By Walker Caplan | August 9, 2021

A Day in the Life of an 11-Year-Old Spy in 1939 Berlin

A Day in the Life of an 11-Year-Old Spy in 1939 Berlin

Rebecca Donner on a Blue Knapsack as the Accessory to Espionage

By Rebecca Donner | August 9, 2021

What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

LaTanya McQueen on Piecing Together Her Family's Past

By LaTanya McQueen | August 9, 2021

On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

Arthur Herman Gets at the Heart of the Sagas’ Perennial Appeal

By Arthur Herman | August 9, 2021

Ron Nyren on Delving into San Francisco’s Storied History

Ron Nyren on Delving into San Francisco’s Storied History

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on New Books Network

By New Books Network | August 7, 2021

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Take a look at a young Flannery O’Connor’s satirical cartoons.

By Walker Caplan | August 6, 2021

Edward J. Watts on the Fall of Rome and the Dangerous Rhetoric of Decline

By Keen On | August 5, 2021

Why We Have Police: Race, Class, and Labor Control

By Philip V. McHarris | August 4, 2021

Tesla vs. GM: On the Early Years of the Electric Car Wars

Tesla vs. GM: On the Early Years of the Electric Car Wars

Tim Higgins Looks Back at Detroit’s Reaction to Elon Musk’s Upstart

By Tim Higgins | August 4, 2021

On Lebanon’s Water Crisis and the Long Fallout of the Civil War

On Lebanon’s Water Crisis and the Long Fallout of the Civil War

Charif Majdalani Traces a History of Corrupt Politicians, Deregulation, and Climate Catastrophe

By Charif Majdalani | August 4, 2021

Michael Knox Beran on the Rise and Fall of WASP Culture

Michael Knox Beran on the Rise and Fall of WASP Culture

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2021

<em>The Plague Year</em> by Lawrence Wright, Read by Eric Jason Martin

The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright, Read by Eric Jason Martin

On the 2020 Pandemic—What Have We Learned?

By Behind the Mic | August 4, 2021

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Finds Lessons in History, From Tehran to Orange County

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | August 3, 2021

Paradise Extended: Searching for My Great-Grandfather’s Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

Paradise Extended: Searching for My Great-Grandfather’s Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 2, 2021

On the Life and Works of Jack Kerouac, “King of the Beats”

On the Life and Works of Jack Kerouac, “King of the Beats”

From the History of Literature with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 2, 2021

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