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How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Scott Howard-Cooper on the Early Years of a Future Basketball Icon

By Scott Howard-Cooper | March 18, 2024

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

Melissa Pritchard Explores the Parallel Lives of the Russian Literary Giant and the Founder of Modern Nursing

By Melissa Pritchard | March 15, 2024

Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World

Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World

Stephanie Dray Recommends Kate Quinn, Stephanie Thornton, Vanessa Riley, and More

By Stephanie Dray | March 15, 2024

“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty...” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty...” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

Dean King on the Great American Wanderer’s Experience of the Sierra Nevadas

By Dean King | March 14, 2024

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

Ramie Targoff on the Hidden History of Women Writers of the English Renaissance

By Ramie Targoff | March 13, 2024

Gloriously Grotesque: How the Cherry Sisters Personified “So Bad It’s Good”

Gloriously Grotesque: How the Cherry Sisters Personified “So Bad It’s Good”

Therese Oneill on the Overlooked Value of Being Your Carefree, Cringeworthy Self

By Therese Oneill | March 11, 2024

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Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry

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Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

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Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

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Keren Blankfeld on Researching a Gripping Love Story and the Challenges of Writing About Someone Who Isn't There

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From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

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Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

Patrick Joyce Explores the Social and Cultural Transformation of Rural Life

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The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

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Considering the Central Role of Community and Solidarity in Stories of Marginalization

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