How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

Audrey Clare Farley on the Scientists Who Weaponized Biology

By Audrey Clare Farley | April 22, 2021

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

Emmanuel Mbolela Considers Our Ongoing Global Humanitarian Crisis

By Emmanuel Mbolela | April 22, 2021

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

Renée Rosen Runs Down the Great Balls of the
19th-Century One Percent

By Renée Rosen | April 22, 2021

Megan Rosenbloom on the History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom on the History of Books Bound in Human Skin

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | April 22, 2021

Alyssa Collins has been awarded the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.

Alyssa Collins has been awarded the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.

By Walker Caplan | April 21, 2021

The University of Cape Town’s African Studies Library, ravaged by wildfire, needs your help.

The University of Cape Town’s African Studies Library, ravaged by wildfire, needs your help.

By Walker Caplan | April 21, 2021

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Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic

By Erica Vital-Lazare | April 21, 2021

Native Spaces: Tracing the History of California Indians and Sacred Land

By Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr. | April 21, 2021

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

By Walker Caplan | April 20, 2021

How a Queer Couple Masterminded a Nazi Resistance Campaign

How a Queer Couple Masterminded a Nazi Resistance Campaign

The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

By Jeffrey H. Jackson | April 20, 2021

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

Guido Tonelli on the Intuition of Georges Lemaître

By Guido Tonelli | April 19, 2021

Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

Brian Castner on Lying George Carmack and the
Discovery of a Lifetime

By Brian Castner | April 19, 2021

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Kate Tsurkan Recommends Andriy Lyubka, Olesya Yaremchuk,
and More

By Kate Tsurkan | April 19, 2021

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

From Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, Jeremy DeSilva Looks at
Our Need to Move

By Jeremy DeSilva | April 19, 2021

Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 19, 2021

Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

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