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Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

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

By Diana Preston | February 10, 2020

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

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

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Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

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Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'The Whole Palace Was Bugged!'

By Diana Preston | February 6, 2020

Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

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

By Diana Preston | February 5, 2020

Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

On the Hard Work of Bridging the Gap Between Progressive Movements

By Michael G. Long | February 5, 2020

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'De Gaulle Thinks He's Joan of Arc'

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'De Gaulle Thinks He's Joan of Arc'

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

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Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

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Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

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A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

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

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

The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

By Adam Sisman | February 3, 2020

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