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    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    Featuring Work by Bridget Read, Amanda Hess, Robert Macfarlane, and More

     
    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    Ancient Rome

    Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

    By Tom Holland  May 1, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Unfree Minds: How Nazi Germany Perfected the Art of Inducing Fear

    By Charlotte Beradt  May 1, 2025
    Sports History

    How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America

    By Gerald Early  May 1, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

    By Zoe Roth  April 30, 2025
    Plagues

    How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements

    By Thomas Levenson  April 30, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    World War II

    Tracing the Journey of World War II’s Stolen and Looted Objects

    By Elisabeth Dini  April 29, 2025
    Literary History

    75 Years Ago, The Martian Chronicles Legitimized Science Fiction

    By Sam Weller  April 28, 2025
    Ancient History

    A Deeply Globalized Ancient World: On William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road

    By Alok A. Khorana  April 28, 2025
    The Hub

    A brief literary history of May Day.

    Happy International Worker's Day!

    By Brittany Allen  May 1, 2025
    Inspiration

    What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

    By Cutter Wood  April 28, 2025
    Childcare

    Nanny As Nuisance: How Caregivers Disrupt the Fiction of the Nuclear Family

    By Hannah Zeavin  April 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Time to re-read The Masses, the 1910s literary magazine crushed by government censorship.

    By James Folta  April 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Five incredible books edited by Toni Morrison.

    By Brittany Allen  April 24, 2025
    Cultural History

    “The Question Project.” On John Dunton and the World’s First Advice Column

    By Mary Beth Norton  April 24, 2025
    American History

    How the Rattlesnake Almost Became an Emblem of a Nascent America

    By Stephen S. Hall  April 24, 2025
    Travel

    The Sant Jordi NYC Festival of Books & Roses is bringing the Catalan celebration to America.

    By James Folta  April 23, 2025
    Language

    On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages

    Lorna Gibb Considers How Language Shapes Identities, Worldviews and Societies Across the Globe

    By Lorna Gibb  April 23, 2025
    Native American History

    How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

    By Mary Annette Pember  April 23, 2025
    Psychedelics

    The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

    By Susannah Cahalan  April 23, 2025
    The Hub

    What if the final meeting between V.P. Vance and Pope Francis took place in a Dan Brown novel?

    By James Folta  April 22, 2025
    Travel

    Following in Elephants’ Footsteps: Packing for a Congo Expedition in the 1800s, and Now

    Sophy Roberts Examines the Travelogues and Expeditions of Nineteenth-Century Europeans

    By Sophy Roberts  April 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 18, 2025
    Social Justice

    Copaganda on the News: On the Crucial Stories the Media Ignores

    By Alec Karakatsanis  April 18, 2025
    Trans History

    Uncovering the Forgotten: The Struggle For Trans History, From Nazi Germany to Today

    By Milo Todd  April 28, 2025
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