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How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

By Mark Braude | August 4, 2022

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

Angus Robertson on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Experiences in the Heart of the Holy Roman Empire

By Angus Robertson | August 4, 2022

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Kevin Boyle in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

Emma Seckel on the Weightiness of History and the Vastness of Landscape

By Emma Seckel | August 3, 2022

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Stefan Dercon in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 2, 2022

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

Daisy Hildyard on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 1, 2022

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What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

By History of Literature | August 1, 2022

Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

By Oscar Hokeah | July 28, 2022

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

By Eve Fairbanks | July 28, 2022

What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

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By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | July 28, 2022

Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | July 28, 2022

“She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

“She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

Kathy Kleiman on Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, and the Search for Women in STEM During WWII

By Kathy Kleiman | July 27, 2022

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

Jerry W. Carlson Deconstructs The Flanders Road

By Jerry W. Carlson | July 27, 2022

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

Sofia Ali-Khan on the Brutal Legacy of the United States’s Westward Expansion

By Sofia Ali-Khan | July 27, 2022

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

G. Elliott Morris on the Enduring Gulf Between Electoral Predictions and Reality

By G. Elliott Morris | July 27, 2022

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond | July 26, 2022

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