• History

    Keen On

    The Personal Crisis That Transformed FDR Into a Historic Leader

    By Keen On  September 6, 2022
    Keen On

    In Search of Mary Seacole, a Remarkable Black Cultural Icon

    By Keen On  September 6, 2022
    The History of Literature

    The Poets’ Guide to Economics

    By History of Literature  September 6, 2022
    Photography

    No Pets Left Behind: A Brief History of Photography Told Through Antique Dog Portraits

    By Anthony Cavo  September 2, 2022
    Football

    Players and Coaches Wanted: On the Beginnings of Toledo’s Pro Women’s Football Team

    By Stephen Guinan  September 1, 2022
    Silicon Valley

    How Silicon Valley Conquered the Post-Cold War Consensus

    By Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert  September 1, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nobel Prize-Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on German Conquest in East Africa and His Latest Novel, Afterlives

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 1, 2022
    Racism

    How American Conservatives Embraced Intellectual Justifications of Racism

    By Nicole Hemmer  August 31, 2022
    Afropfrontierism

    Rio Cortez on Afropioneerism, Afrofrontierism, and Family Histories Real and Imagined

    By Rio Cortez  August 31, 2022
    Football

    Big Business, Small Town Ideals: On Midwestern College Football

    By Ben Mathis-Lilley  August 31, 2022
    Trends

    From Surfboards to Seed Corn: How Society Creates Trends

    By W. David Marx  August 30, 2022
    Celebrity

    What Can Bruce Lee Tell Us About Our Contemporary World?

    By Daryl Joji Maeda  August 26, 2022
    The Hub

    30 years ago tonight, Sarajevo’s National Library was burned to the ground.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 25, 2022
    Keen On

    On How We Remember the Holocaust

    By Keen On  August 25, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 25, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   August 25, 2022
    Black Activism

    Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

    By Aja Monet  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Kate Chopin threw her most famous character under the bus in this ironic rebuttal to critics.

    By Corinne Segal  August 23, 2022
    American History

    What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

    By Dan Bouk  August 23, 2022
    The Holocaust

    The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

    By Linda Kinstler  August 23, 2022
    Queer Community

    A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

    By Rasheed Newson  August 23, 2022
    Film History

    Marguerite Duras on Writing the Screenplay for Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour

    By Marguerite Duras  August 22, 2022
    Keen On

    How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
    Keen On

    What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
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