• History

    Controversies

    Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

    By John Erik Riley  December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Biography

    On the Ambitious Beginnings of China’s Influential Soong Sisters

    By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
    Celebrity

    Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

    By Leah Rosenzweig  December 4, 2019
    Sociology

    Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

    By J. M. Fenster  December 4, 2019
    World War II

    On the Eve of WWII:
    Three Days Before the Bombing of Paris

    By Françoise Frenkel  December 3, 2019
    Religious History

    Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed

    By Karen Armstrong  December 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
    Cities

    On (and In) The Sewers (and Sewage) That Transformed Paris

    By Stephen Halliday  December 2, 2019
    New Books Network

    C.P. Lesley and Charles Todd Talk Victorian Sleuths and the Toll of WWI

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2019
    Political History

    Remember, Remember Where the Word ‘Guy’ Comes From

    By Allan Metcalf  November 27, 2019
    Material History

    The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

    By Alanna Okun  November 27, 2019
    American History

    How William Monroe Trotter Mobilized Black Americans Across Class Lines

    By Kerri K Greenidge  November 26, 2019
    Religion

    How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

    By J.D. Dickey  November 22, 2019
    Unexpected Outcomes

    How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

    By Norman Lebrecht  November 22, 2019
    Family Stories

    A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

    By Sarah Abrevaya Stein  November 22, 2019
    European History

    Retracing the Historical (and Literal) Path of Napoleon’s Retreat from Russia

    By Sylvain Tesson  November 21, 2019
    Politics

    On the Great Secret-Keepers
    of History

    By Courtney Taylor  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

    By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
    American History

    Piecing Together the Lives
    of Enslaved Americans

    By Rachel May  November 21, 2019
    Economics

    When a City Goes Bankrupt: A Brief History of Detroit c. 2010

    By Jodie Adams Kirshner  November 21, 2019
    American Diplomacy

    American Diplomacy After Benghazi

    By Paul Richter  November 20, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
    Political Poetry

    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Sociology

    The Debutante Ball in the Global
    Age of Instagram

    By Kristen Richardson  November 20, 2019
    World War II

    Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

    By Serhii Plokhy  November 20, 2019
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