• History

    Colonialism

    How a Mundane Anthropologist and Bureaucrat Helped Contribute to American Settler Colonialism

    By Alicia Puglionesi  April 14, 2022
    Language

    Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

    By Samantha Hunt  April 13, 2022
    Black History

    The High Stakes of Textbooks: On the Necessity of Complex, Inclusive History Lessons

    By Elizabeth Alexander  April 12, 2022
    Politics

    How the Toxic Waters of Niagara Falls Poisoned a Community

    By Keith O'Brien  April 12, 2022
    Gender

    How Indigenous Societies Fought to Preserve Their Blended Gender Identities in the Face of Colonialism

    By Gregory D. Smithers  April 12, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    How the Hebrew Bible Poses Fundamental Questions About Language

    By The Cosmic Library   April 12, 2022
    Reading Lists

    A Century of Greatness: The Best African American Literary Anthologies

    By Kenton Rambsy  April 11, 2022
    AIDS Activism

    Behind the Scenes of ACT UP’s Groundbreaking Kissing Doesn’t Kill Campaign

    By Jack Lowery  April 11, 2022
    Civil Rights

    Blacks and Jews: Fifty-Five Years After James Baldwin’s “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”

    By Jacques Berlinerblau and Terrence L. Johnson  April 9, 2022
    Ukraine

    Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2022
    Keen On

    What Comes After Neoliberalism? And Is It Worse?

    By Andrew Keen  April 8, 2022
    Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Tracing the Ancestry of the Earliest Enslaved Ndongo People

    By Clyde W. Ford  April 8, 2022
    World War II

    The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

    By Richard Overy  April 8, 2022
    Open Source

    “Somehow This Madness Must Cease.” Revisiting MLK Jr.’s Sermon Against the Vietnam War

    By Open Source  April 8, 2022
    Racism

    How Racial Bias Facilitated the US Child Welfare System’s Targeting of Black Communities

    By Dorothy Roberts  April 7, 2022
    Disability

    How America’s Concepts of Disability and Family Were Created by Fascism

    By Jennifer Natalya Fink  April 6, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    James Bond’s War: On Ian Fleming’s Role in Espionage During World War II

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   April 6, 2022
    Archeology

    The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great—and the Quest for His Lost Cities

    By Edmund Richardson  April 5, 2022
    Utopias

    Finding Utopias Where We Can: On Hopeful Living as Resistance

    By Zan Romanoff  April 4, 2022
    Childhood

    On Surviving a Childhood Marked by Civil War

    By Pacifique Irankunda  April 4, 2022
    Keen On

    How America’s Foremost Propagandist of Entry Into WWI Was an Imposter

    By Keen On  April 4, 2022
    Technology

    Naomi Klein on How Egypt’s Extinguished Revolution Continues to Inspire Struggle Worldwide

    By Naomi Klein  April 1, 2022
    African Literature

    How Langston Hughes Has Influenced Generations of South African Writers

    By C. A. Davids  April 1, 2022
    Keen On

    What Kind of Person Will It Take to Lead Us Through These Hard Times?

    By Andrew Keen  April 1, 2022
    Research

    Why Do So Many Genealogical Documents Lead Back to the Mormon Church?

    By Neal Thompson  March 31, 2022
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