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Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

"I am crazy on the sea."

By Simon Parkin | February 7, 2020

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

Sophia Leonard on a Draft that Never Saw the Light of Day

By Sophia Leonard | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the Growing Tide of Racial Animosity in 1930s Los Angeles

By Donna Rifkind | February 7, 2020

Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 7, 2020

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Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

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The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

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The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

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What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

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Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

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