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When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

Matt Tompkins on People Who Talk to Dead People (and the People Who Study Them)

By Matt Tompkins | May 30, 2019

On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York's Skyline

On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York's Skyline

When a City Values Functionality Over Form

By Anthony Alofsin | May 29, 2019

My Decade-Long Fascination with the Tale of Monica Lewinsky

My Decade-Long Fascination with the Tale of Monica Lewinsky

Mandy Berman Aims to Restore Romantic Complexity to Women

By Mandy Berman | May 29, 2019

The most recent

The most recent "crisis in the humanities" is really just a case of crossed wires.

By Aaron Robertson | May 24, 2019

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

In Celebration of a Writer, Bill-Payer, and Bordello Owner

By Jaime Fuller | May 24, 2019

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

How the Study of Physics Came to a Halt During the Great War

By Matthew Stanley | May 22, 2019

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On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall | May 22, 2019

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By Aaron Robertson | May 20, 2019

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

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

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

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

A City on the Edge

By Julia Flynn Siler | May 15, 2019

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle

By Susan Ware | May 13, 2019

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

"Shade Comes From Reading. Reading Came First." –Dorian Corey

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

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