• History

    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  September 5, 2025
    On Translation

    A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

    By Ginny Tapley Takemori  September 4, 2025
    Democracy

    Are Americans Being Conditioned to Accept Delayed Elections?

    By Aron Solomon  September 3, 2025
    Virgil

    Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

    By Emily Wilson  September 3, 2025
    Immigration

    Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System

    By Daniel A. Olivas  September 3, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  August 29, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Travel

    Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2025
    Palestine

    The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

    By Philip Metres  August 27, 2025
    Palestine

    How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People

    By Literary Hub  August 27, 2025
    World War I

    The WWI Battle That Never Ended: Finding Unexploded Mines in Verdun’s Fields

    Michael Jerome Plunkett on France's De-miners and Discoveries While Writing a War Novel

    By Michael Jerome Plunkett  September 5, 2025
    Sci-Fi

    How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

    By Nick Foster  August 26, 2025
    Ancient History

    How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word

    By Moudhy Al-Rashid  August 26, 2025
    The Hub

    C-SPAN is starting a (very “patriotic”) book club.

    By Brittany Allen  August 25, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    The Hub

    The Black Cauldron turns 40 this year. Here’s why the famous flop is worth a second look.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    Fascism

    The Fascist History of Yoga

    By Stewart Home  August 22, 2025
    American West

    The Making of America’s Frontier Mythology Was the Making of America

    By Paul Andrew Hutton  August 22, 2025
    Iran

    Between Myth and Modernity: On Persian Stories, Identity, and the US-Iran Divide

    Ryan Bani Tahmaseb Considers the Enduring Wisdom of Iranian Myths

    By Ryan Bani Tahmaseb  August 22, 2025
    Lesbian Literature

    On the Past and Future of Lesbian Pulp

    By Trish Bendix  August 21, 2025
    Style

    Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools

    By Kathleen B. Casey  August 21, 2025
    World War II

    Crossing the Atlantic During Britain’s Darkest Hour in World War II

    By Doug Most  August 20, 2025
    World War II

    After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

    An Oral History of the Coverage What the United States Attempted to Cover Up

    By Garrett M. Graff  August 20, 2025
    The Hub

    Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

    By Brittany Allen  August 19, 2025
    Slavery

    Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery

    By Bitter Kalli  August 19, 2025
    Politics

    The Enduring Legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, Murdered by the NYPD For Resisting Eviction

    By LaShawn Harris  August 27, 2025
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