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History
When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis
Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France
By
Christopher C. Gorham
| September 29, 2025
How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography
Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary
By
Ilan Stavans
| September 29, 2025
What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West
Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity
By
Martha A. Sandweiss
| September 29, 2025
Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.
By
Brittany Allen
| September 26, 2025
How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose
From Sophia Rosenfeld’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “The Age of Choice”
By
Sophia Rosenfeld
| September 26, 2025
How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations
From Lyndal Roper's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Summer of Fire and Blood”
By
Lyndal Roper
| September 25, 2025
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From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents
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Benjamin Nathans
| September 24, 2025
Why are we so obsessed (lately) with TV shows about dying media?
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Brittany Allen
| September 23, 2025
Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas
By
Greg Grandin
| September 23, 2025
What
Pride and Prejudice
Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time
Patricia A. Matthew Explores the Historical Context of Jane Austen’s Most Famous Novel
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Patricia A. Matthew
| September 22, 2025
The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe
From Marlene L. Daut's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “The First and Last King of Haiti”
By
Marlene L. Daut
| September 22, 2025
Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery
David McNally Offers a Marxist Perspective on the Economics of Human Exploitation
By
David McNally
| September 22, 2025
The Power of the Podcast Collaborators: On the State Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel
“If all of your fantasies are imagined confrontations, you are not so secretly rehearsing for the chance to fight and punish your enemies.”
By
James Folta
| September 19, 2025
No North, No South: The Tragically Unfulfilled Promise of Korea’s Asian Spring
From Kornel Chang’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “A Fractured Liberation”
By
Kornel Chang
| September 19, 2025
How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain
Jonathan Healey on the Political Turmoil That Marred the Year of 1642
By
Jonathan Healey
| September 18, 2025
How Feminists Fought to Formally Recognize Women’s Domestic Labor
From Emily Callaci's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Wages for Housework”
By
Emily Callaci
| September 18, 2025
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