• History

    American History

    The Midcentury Battle to Save America’s Cities from Crisis

    By Lizabeth Cohen  October 8, 2019
    Fascism

    On the Far Right Past of Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of Ikea

    By Elisabeth Åsbrink  October 7, 2019
    Immigration

    On the Universal Urgency of Immigrant Literature

    By Christopher Castellani  October 7, 2019
    Remembering

    Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

    By Julia Alvarez  October 4, 2019
    Anger

    From the Unabomber to the Incels: Angry Young Men on Campus

    By Eileen Pollack  October 4, 2019
    Origin Stories

    To the Manor Born: On the Rise of Fred C. Trump, Homebuilder

    By Thomas J. Campanella  October 3, 2019
    The Labor Movement

    On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

    By Stephen Harrigan  October 2, 2019
    Probability

    Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

    By Ian Stewart  October 2, 2019
    What to Read

    12 Books You Should Read
    This October

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2019
    Economics

    Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

    By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
    European History

    How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

    By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  September 30, 2019
    Soccer

    How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

    By Jonathan Wilson  September 27, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    Catholicism

    How a Saint Gets Made

    By Sonja Livingston  September 26, 2019
    Etymologies

    How the Word ‘Ghetto’ Traveled from Europe to America

    By Daniel B. Schwartz  September 26, 2019
    Economics

    Friedrich Hayek: Not Exactly the Libertarian Darling He’s Claimed As

    By James Bernard Murphy  September 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Jazz Age Heiress Who Witnessed WWII Up Close

    By Peter Finn  September 24, 2019
    Inspiration

    Writing About the Forgotten Black Women of the Italo-Ethiopian War

    By Maaza Mengiste  September 24, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    For Millennials, Self-Help is More About ‘We’ Than ‘Me’

    By Kathryn Watson  September 23, 2019
    American History

    The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

    By T. H. Breen  September 23, 2019
    US Politics

    The Long Legacy of America’s Militarist, Racist Demagoguery

    By Greg Grandin  September 20, 2019
    Cities

    Walking with the Ghosts of Black
    Los Angeles

    By Ismail Muhammad  September 20, 2019
    Hysteria

    In Search of Hysteria: The Man Who Thought He Could Define Madness

    By Allan H. Ropper and Brian Burrell  September 20, 2019
    WWII

    Reckoning with the Slave Empires of WWII

    By James Walvin  September 20, 2019
    Page 131 of 155

    • Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member: Because Books Matter

    For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for a donation, you’ll get an ad-free reading experience, exclusive editors’ picks, book giveaways, and our coveted Joan Didion Lit Hub tote bag. Most importantly, you’ll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving on the internet.

    Become a member for as low as $5/month

    Dismiss without supporting Lit Hub
    x