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On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Revisits Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's
The Making of a Southerner

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall | May 22, 2019

The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week...

The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week...

By Aaron Robertson | May 20, 2019

In India, One Publisher's High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

In India, One Publisher's High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

Changing the Conversation One Book at a Time

By Liesl Schwabe | May 20, 2019

L. Frank Baum's first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

L. Frank Baum's first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

It didn't do quite as well as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By Emily Temple | May 17, 2019

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

From Rooming Houses to the YMCA

By George Chauncey | May 17, 2019

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Where Else Do Men of Letters Pal Around?

By Leo Damrosch | May 16, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • 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

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

By Julia Flynn Siler | May 15, 2019

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

By Susan Ware | May 13, 2019

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

By Jeanna Kadlec | May 13, 2019

How the Bubonic Plague <em>Almost</em> Came to America

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More!

By David K. Randall | May 9, 2019

We Have Always Loved<br> Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley Offers a Brief History of Political Listicles

By Douglas Brinkley | May 8, 2019

On the Unsung Lives<br> of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

When Two Railroads—and the Migrant Workers Who Built Them—Met

By Gordon H. Chang | May 8, 2019

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

Jacques Schiffrin and the Creation of Pléiade Editions

By Amos Reichman | May 7, 2019

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with <br>the British Monarchy?)

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

From Shakespeare to Austen, the Hagiographic to the Contemptuous

By Robert Morrison | May 6, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer <br>Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

"Without experience... We can possess no knowledge of the world."

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

"White’s patriotism is clear-eyed; his nationalism nonexistent."

By Jon Meacham | May 6, 2019

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