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Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

Brandon Shimoda on Seeking Ancestral Connections Through Remnants on the Wall at Fort Missoula

By Brandon Shimoda | July 30, 2019

A Brief and Awful History <br>of the Lobotomy

A Brief and Awful History
of the Lobotomy

Groundbreaking Discoveries... But at What Cost?

By Andrew Scull | July 30, 2019

On Hitler's Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

On Hitler's Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

"Paris must not fall into enemy hands except as a field of ruins."

By Jean Edward Smith | July 30, 2019

The Writer and the Dictator: <br>A Love/Hate Story

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

Alaa Al Aswany on Tawfiq al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit and its Influence on Egyptian Politics

By Alaa Al Aswany | July 29, 2019

Apocalyptic Prophets: Reading the Fine Print of Ammon Bundy's Divine Mandate

Apocalyptic Prophets: Reading the Fine Print of Ammon Bundy's Divine Mandate

Sally Denton on the Cowboy Constitutionalists of the Oregon Militia Standoff

By Sally Denton | July 25, 2019

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

How Eduard Douwes Dekker's Max Havelaar Led to a Revolution

By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

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On the Hypercapitalist Utopian Project of Singapore

By Trisha Low | July 24, 2019

The Unsung Woman Who Changed How We Take Care of Newborns

By Dr. Catherine Whitlock and Dr. Rhodri Evans | July 24, 2019

In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

By Karl Marlantes | July 23, 2019

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

Walt Odets on the First Years of the AIDS Epidemic and the Stigmatization of Gay Men

By Walt Odets | July 22, 2019

Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

The Soviet Space Dogs Who Boldly Went Where They Were Told to Go

By Martin Parr | July 19, 2019

What If We Got Stuck on the Moon?

What If We Got Stuck on the Moon?

On the Anxiety of Having Only One Chance to Get Home to Earth

By Harry Hurt III | July 19, 2019

On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

On the Human Spaceflight Program That Made Apollo Possible

Gemini: Fine-Tuning the Techniques to Send People to the Moon

By James Donovan | July 19, 2019

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

Booze, Books, and Oh Yes, Bad Behavior

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2019

The world's oldest surviving letter by an actual Christian contains a request for fish sauce.

The world's oldest surviving letter by an actual Christian contains a request for fish sauce.

By Aaron Robertson | July 16, 2019

What Hemingway Cut From <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls</em>

What Hemingway Cut From For Whom the Bell Tolls

An Epilogue, For Starters

By Seán Hemingway | July 16, 2019

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