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Rewriting the American Canon with <em>The Book of Firsts</em>

Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | December 21, 2020

On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

Yarden Katz Explains the Technology in Service to
the Ideology of Whiteness

By Yarden Katz | December 18, 2020

The Fascinating History of Intersectionality in the Medieval World

The Fascinating History of Intersectionality in the Medieval World

Roland Betancourt on the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast

By New Books Network | December 18, 2020

Was Stonehenge Just the Inner Part of a Huge Wooden Temple?

Was Stonehenge Just the Inner Part of a Huge Wooden Temple?

Roland Ennos on the Neolithic Desire for Permanence

By Roland Ennos | December 18, 2020

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

Alan Mikhail Considers the Historical Ripples of Islamophobia

By Alan Mikhail | December 17, 2020

On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 17, 2020

Best Reviewed
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  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
New Mexico

By Ken Layne | December 16, 2020

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness
and Disability

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2020

The Restless Ghost Stories
of M. R. James

By Adam Scovell | December 15, 2020

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

Jan Swafford on the Influence of Leopold Mozart on
His Precocious Son

By Jan Swafford | December 15, 2020

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

"Big Manhattan book publishers publish hundreds of authors each year, but in their eyes, only a very few really matter."

By Richard Jean So | December 15, 2020

On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

Michaelangelo Matos Goes Deep on One of 1980s Biggest Duets

By Michaelangelo Matos | December 14, 2020

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

Julian E. Zelizer Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 14, 2020

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America

By Melvin I. Urofsky | December 14, 2020

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

Damiano Abeni: Transforming Texts as a Performing Art

By Damiano Abeni | December 14, 2020

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

Rick Perlstein Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 11, 2020

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