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We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

When Poetry Met Power in January, 1961

By John Burnside | February 10, 2020

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

Gaia Vince Considers the Adaptive Urgency of Storytelling

By Gaia Vince | February 10, 2020

Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 10, 2020

Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

"I am crazy on the sea."

By Simon Parkin | February 7, 2020

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

Sophia Leonard on a Draft that Never Saw the Light of Day

By Sophia Leonard | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

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Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

By Donna Rifkind | February 7, 2020

Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

By Diana Preston | February 7, 2020

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

Liesl Schillinger on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Power of the Presidency

By Liesl Schillinger | February 6, 2020

Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'The Whole Palace Was Bugged!'

Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'The Whole Palace Was Bugged!'

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 6, 2020

Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 5, 2020

Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

On the Hard Work of Bridging the Gap Between Progressive Movements

By Michael G. Long | February 5, 2020

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'De Gaulle Thinks He's Joan of Arc'

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'De Gaulle Thinks He's Joan of Arc'

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 4, 2020

Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

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