• History

    The Hub

    4Columns is closing up shop. Here are 10 unmissable pieces from their archives.

     
    By Brittany Allen  July 24, 2025
    World War II

    Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

    By Iain MacGregor  July 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Why Clueless is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.

    By Brittany Allen  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
    Geology

    How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

    By Laura Poppick  July 22, 2025
    Architecture

    A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm

    By Henry Wiencek  July 22, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    American History

    Painting the Revolution:
    The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence

    By Zara Anishanslin  July 17, 2025
    Photography

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 2025
    Psychedelics

    Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

    By Andrew R. Gallimore  July 16, 2025
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

    Tanya Talaga Explores the Intersections of a Family Mystery and the Ongoing Legacy of Genocide Against Canada’s First Nations

    By Tanya Talaga  July 24, 2025
    Travel

    Black authors’ houses are historically hard to preserve. Here’s why (plus, a few to visit).

    By Brittany Allen  July 15, 2025
    Identity

    In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

    By Madeline Potter  July 15, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By Brittany Allen  July 11, 2025
    On Race

    Other Worlds, Other Futures: On Black Panther and the Dream of Escapist Emancipation

    Ekow Eshun Explores the Possibilities of Black Futures That Transcend the Expectations of Modernity

    By Ekow Eshun  July 11, 2025
    Billionaires

    A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon… Or Both?

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    World War II

    The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

    By Tracy Slater  July 10, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

    By Peter Balakian  July 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

    By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2025
    Literary History

    Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

    By Sam Kelly  July 8, 2025
    Prison

    Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2025
    American History

    On America’s First Highway: Preparing For a Trip Along the Great Wagon Road

    By James Dodson  July 7, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    Lauren O'Neill Butler on Shotgun Houses, Segregation, and the Art of Rick Lowe and John Biggers

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
    Corporate America

    Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

    By Leigh Claire La Berge  July 1, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By Brittany Allen  June 27, 2025
    Cultural History

    How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists

    By Jennifer Dasal  July 16, 2025
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