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Rooting for the Louvre thieves? Here are seven books to read if you love art crime.
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Brittany Allen
| October 23, 2025
Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb
Serhii Plokhy Digs Into the Rush to Research and Develop Nuclear Warfare in Germany, the USSR, and Japan
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Serhii Plokhy
| October 23, 2025
Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War
Cundill Prize Finalist Lyndal Roper Recommends Friedrich Engels, Peter Blickle, Gerd Schwerhoff and More
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Lyndal Roper
| October 23, 2025
How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World
Imaobong Umoren on the Violent History of the Colonized Caribbean
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Imaobong Umoren
| October 23, 2025
Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth
Adrienne Mayor Explores the Folklore and Legends Behind Natural Phenomena From Across the World
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| October 22, 2025
On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”
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From Martinique to New York: On the Trailblazing Career of Paulette Nardal
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How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.
130 years after the British Library revoked his card-carrying privileges, Wilde's grandson got his.
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The Mild Mannered Englishman Who Was the World’s Most Prolific Ghost Hunter
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How Black Labor Unions Impacted the Creation of the Stanzaic Blues Poem
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Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History
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A Palestinian Daughter’s Search for Connection with Her Father, Her Past, and Her Homeland
“I am homesick, whatever home means.”
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Mai Serhan
| October 17, 2025
Singing For Freedom: How Those Fleeing Slavery Found New Lives in the North
Tom Zoellner on the Role of Music and Faith in the Experiences of the Formerly Enslaved
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Tom Zoellner
| October 17, 2025
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