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

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

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy on Museum Ethics and Animal Welfare in 19th Century America

By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy | April 25, 2024

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

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

Earl Swift on the Continuing Regime of Racial Terror in the Post-Civil War American South

By Earl Swift | April 25, 2024

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

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

Bettany Hughes Considers the Creation and Construction of the Ancient World

By Bettany Hughes | April 25, 2024

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

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

Joe Fassler Ponders Our Innate Desire to Rise Above It All

By Joe Fassler | April 24, 2024

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

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

In Which “the Intellectual Handmaidens of the Capitalists” Are Taken to Task

By Joseph E. Stiglitz | April 24, 2024

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

Nicola Nice on the Hostess Langston Hughes Called the “Joy Goddess of Harlem”

By Nicola Nice | April 24, 2024

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By Erin Zimmerman | April 19, 2024

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

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

Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

By Literary Hub | April 18, 2024

What if Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em> came out today?

What if Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales came out today?

By James Folta | April 17, 2024

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

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

Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

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

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

Gabriel Brownstein on the Long Tradition of Men Misdiagnosing Women’s Maladies

By Gabriel Brownstein | April 17, 2024

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

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

Steven W. Thrasher on the Myth of the “Independent Journalist”

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 16, 2024

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

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

Lisa Kaltenegger Considers Carl Sagan, Alien Equations, and How Sci-Fi Can Help Us Imagine Extraterrestrial Life

By Lisa Kaltenegger | April 16, 2024

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

Michael Korda on the Creative and Sentimental Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

By Michael Korda | April 16, 2024

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