How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

Dennis Duncan on the Hope, History and Necessity of All Those Numbers and Words

By Dennis Duncan | February 18, 2022

Want an app to read you the <em>Canterbury Tales</em> in Middle English? You’re in luck.

Want an app to read you the Canterbury Tales in Middle English? You’re in luck.

By Walker Caplan | February 17, 2022

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

On the Revelatory Scandals of Elizabeth Chudleigh, aka the Duchess Countess

By Catherine Ostler | February 17, 2022

What Is China Reading Right Now?

What Is China Reading Right Now?

Megan Walsh on the “Little Emperors” of Contemporary Chinese Literature

By Megan Walsh | February 17, 2022

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 17, 2022

How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

Anne F. Hyde on the Implications of the Homestead Act on Indigenous Land

By Anne F. Hyde | February 17, 2022

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Read President Obama’s citation of Maya Angelou when awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

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How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

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David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

“We are writing ourselves closer to the ideals purported at the founding.”

By David Wright Faladé | February 15, 2022

Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 15, 2022

A brief history of heart-shaped books.

A brief history of heart-shaped books.

By Walker Caplan | February 14, 2022

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

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Activist Learning: How Anti-Vietnam War Academics Reinvented the Strike

Activist Learning: How Anti-Vietnam War Academics Reinvented the Strike

Ellen Schrecker on the American Tradition of Campus Protest

By Ellen Schrecker | February 14, 2022

Dara Horn on How Jewish History is Exploited to Flatter the Living

Dara Horn on How Jewish History is Exploited to Flatter the Living

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 14, 2022

On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | February 14, 2022

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