• History

    Childhood

    “Intentional Neglect.” On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England

    By Heather Montgomery  May 8, 2024
    Jazz

    How Black Female Jazz Performers Confronted a Racist and Misogynistic World

    By Larry Tye  May 7, 2024
    World War I

    What World War I Trench Art Tells Us About Its Creators

    By Ann Hood  May 7, 2024
    Protest

    Inside the Occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, 1968 Version

    By Charles Kaiser  May 3, 2024
    Nazis

    How the German State Haphazardly Prosecuted Nazi War Criminals

    By Tobias Buck  May 3, 2024
    The Hub

    “Crazy with the poison of Vietnam in my lungs.” Paul Auster on the ’68 Columbia protests.

    By James Folta  May 1, 2024
    Cultural History

    How Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia

    By Aarathi Prasad  May 1, 2024
    Economics

    We Made This Economy, and We Can Remake It: Natalie Foster on Building a Better America

    By Natalie Foster  April 29, 2024
    The Hub

    Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.

    By James Folta  April 26, 2024
    Mental health

    From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria

    By Caroline Crampton  April 26, 2024
    Animals

    How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City

    By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy  April 25, 2024
    American History

    What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

    By Earl Swift  April 25, 2024
    Ancient History

    What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

    By Bettany Hughes  April 25, 2024
    Inventions

    Crash Again, Crash Better: A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight

    By Joe Fassler  April 24, 2024
    Economics

    Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

    By Joseph E. Stiglitz  April 24, 2024
    Drinking

    How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

    By Nicola Nice  April 24, 2024
    Democracy

    On America’s Two-Party System… And the Damage It Has Done

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 23, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

    By Ed Simon  April 19, 2024
    Women in Science

    How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

    By Erin Zimmerman  April 19, 2024
    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    The Hub

    What if Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales came out today?

    By James Folta  April 17, 2024
    Cultural History

    How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

    By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
    Medical history

    The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

    By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
    Journalism

    What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher  April 16, 2024
    Aliens?

    Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

    By Lisa Kaltenegger  April 16, 2024
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