• History

    Ukrainian Literature

    Understanding the Ukraine Crisis: A Comprehensive Reading List

    By Henrikas Bliudzius  February 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Dwight Chapin on the Life and Administration of Richard Nixon

    By Keen On  February 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Marc David Baer on the Ottoman Empire’s Enduring Impact on Europe and the World

    By Keen On  February 24, 2022
    Book Dreams

    On the Origins and Enduring Power of the Arthurian Legends

    By Book Dreams  February 24, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Revisiting the Battle of Bréville

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   February 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Want to see Jane Austen’s film costumes? Take a trip to Cincinnati.

    By Walker Caplan  February 23, 2022
    Sun Valley Writers' Conference

    Annette Gordon-Reed: Getting History Right

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  February 23, 2022
    Physics

    The Real Life and Times of the Scientist Who Inspired Dr. Strangelove

    By Ananyo Bhattacharya  February 23, 2022
    WWI

    How Much Was WWI About… Bread?

    By Scott Reynolds Nelson  February 23, 2022
    Geopolitics

    On the Very Real Dangers of Artificial Borders

    By Patrick Strickland  February 23, 2022
    Friendship

    Sarah Weinman on the Not-So-Unlikely Friendship Between Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, Jr.

    By Sarah Weinman  February 22, 2022
    Archives

    How Archivists Uncover the Clues to History

    By Isaac Fellman  February 22, 2022
    The Hub

    How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

    By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2022
    Victorian Literature

    On the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    By Vidya Krishnan  February 18, 2022
    Craft

    Erik Larson on Finding a New Angle on History

    By Erik Larson  February 18, 2022
    Open Source

    The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

    By Open Source  February 18, 2022
    History of Reading

    How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

    By Dennis Duncan  February 18, 2022
    The Hub

    Want an app to read you the Canterbury Tales in Middle English? You’re in luck.

    By Walker Caplan  February 17, 2022
    Aristocracy

    The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

    By Catherine Ostler  February 17, 2022
    Chinese Literature

    What Is China Reading Right Now?

    By Megan Walsh  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

    By Anne F. Hyde  February 17, 2022
    The Hub

    Read President Obama’s citation of Maya Angelou when awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

    By Walker Caplan  February 16, 2022
    Vikings

    Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

    By Bernd Brunner  February 16, 2022
    Classics

    How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

    By Erin Morgenstern  February 16, 2022
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