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Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia

By Martin Padgett | June 12, 2025

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, America's first Black Celebrity Heiress

By A'Lelia Bundles | June 11, 2025

How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

Zaakir Tameez Explores the Domestic and International Dynamics of the Early Days of the Civil War

By Zaakir Tameez | June 11, 2025

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

Arianne Edmonds on the Intellectual and Political Legacy of Her Great-Great-Grandfather, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds

By Arianne Edmonds | June 11, 2025

Tyranny as Tragedy: On <em>King Lear</em>, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality

By Nan Z. Da | June 10, 2025

Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

Caroline Fraser on the Intersection of Environmental Contamination and Violence in the Pacific Northwest

By Caroline Fraser | June 10, 2025

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States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

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Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

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Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

David Rooney on John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, Two Fearless Aviators Forgotten by History

By David Rooney | June 5, 2025

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

By Mark Kriegel | June 4, 2025

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Maggie Stiefvater: “Here is another way luxury differs from wealth. Wealth does what you tell it to. Luxury surprises you.”

By Maggie Stiefvater | June 4, 2025

How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

Claire Lynch on the Legacy of Section 28 and the Parallels With Current Book Bans Across the Pond

By Claire Lynch | June 3, 2025

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

Deborah Baker on Richard Spencer, White Nationalism, and the Challenges of Covering Neo-Nazis

By Deborah Baker | June 3, 2025

Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine's Olympic Debut

Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine's Olympic Debut

Brendan O’Meara on the Star Runner's Performance at the 1972 Summer Games

By Brendan O’Meara | June 2, 2025

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