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Behind the Scenes of Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story

Behind the Scenes of Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 15, 2022

A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

Arran Lomas Details The Gruesome Methods of Proving Guilt or Innocence in the Middle Ages

By Arran Lomas | August 12, 2022

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

Read a Scene from Five Days at Memorial, Newly Adapted by Apple TV+

By Sheri Fink | August 12, 2022

How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

How We Remember—and Forget—America’s Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

Andrew Keen on the Fallout of the Forever War

By Andrew Keen | August 12, 2022

How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

Kirk Wallace Johnson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 12, 2022

The Overlooked History of the Civil Rights Queen, Constance Baker Motley

The Overlooked History of the Civil Rights Queen, Constance Baker Motley

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | August 11, 2022

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When Silence is Heard: Telling the Stories of Women During the Partition of India

By Melody Razak | August 11, 2022

Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

By Nona Willis Aronowitz | August 11, 2022

Remembering the US War in Afghanistan and the Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter

By Keen On | August 11, 2022

The Battle of Atlantic, 80 Years Later

The Battle of Atlantic, 80 Years Later

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | August 11, 2022

Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

On President Warren G. Harding’s Airedale Terrier

By Andrew Hager | August 10, 2022

From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law

From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law

To Say Abortion is Not “Deeply Rooted” in American History is Wrong

By Elisabeth Griffith | August 10, 2022

What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

Kate Finn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 10, 2022

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”

By Christina Lamb | August 9, 2022

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Bernadette Jiwa on Her Grandmother’s Death and the Need to Keep History Close

By Bernadette Jiwa | August 9, 2022

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

By Jonny Diamond | August 8, 2022

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