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A Brief History of One of the Most Powerful Families in New York City: The Morgenthaus

A Brief History of One of the Most Powerful Families in New York City: The Morgenthaus

Andrew Meier on the So-Called Jewish Kennedys

By Andrew Meier | October 17, 2022

How Potato Blight Made Ireland Into a Country of Emigrants

How Potato Blight Made Ireland Into a Country of Emigrants

Sean Connolly on Famine-Induced Mass Migration

By Sean Connolly | October 17, 2022

How President Obama Marked 50 Years of Civil Rights Struggle With One of His Most Memorable Speeches

How President Obama Marked 50 Years of Civil Rights Struggle With One of His Most Memorable Speeches

Cody Keenan on Putting Words Into the President’s Mouth

By Cody Keenan | October 17, 2022

Fighting Guantanamo: On Challenging the Illegal Treatment of Prisoners Captured in the American War on Terror

Fighting Guantanamo: On Challenging the Illegal Treatment of Prisoners Captured in the American War on Terror

Lisa Hajjar in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 17, 2022

Who Gets to Define History? On Indigenous Displacement in Northern California

Who Gets to Define History? On Indigenous Displacement in Northern California

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | October 17, 2022

How Gorbachev’s Reforms Triggered the Destabilization of the Soviet Union

How Gorbachev’s Reforms Triggered the Destabilization of the Soviet Union

Vladislav M. Zubok on the Leader's Approach to Power

By Vladislav M. Zubok | October 17, 2022

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How Irish Immigration Made the Modern World

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How the Fight for NATO Expansion Established the Future of Global Politics

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It Was the Worst of Times. Truly.

By Andrew Keen | October 14, 2022

The Naturalist’s Gaze: What Charles Darwin Saw in Tahiti

The Naturalist’s Gaze: What Charles Darwin Saw in Tahiti

Diana Preston on the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Imperial Power in the South Pacific

By Diana Preston | October 13, 2022

How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with <em>Explaining Ukraine’s</em> Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 13, 2022

How Hate-Fueled Misinformation and Propaganda Grew in Nazi Germany

How Hate-Fueled Misinformation and Propaganda Grew in Nazi Germany

“It is inconceivable that for an indefinite period the 65 million people in Germany will endure it.”

By Tom Dunkel | October 13, 2022

What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

Stacy Schiff in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 13, 2022

There’s a Long History of Snobs Loving Classical Music—and Classical Musicians Loathing Them

There’s a Long History of Snobs Loving Classical Music—and Classical Musicians Loathing Them

Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch on Mozart, Money, and the Transcendent Power of Musical Connection

By Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch | October 13, 2022

How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War

How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 13, 2022

The Trailblazing Illustrator and Mountaineer Who Explored the Wild North

The Trailblazing Illustrator and Mountaineer Who Explored the Wild North

Pamela Henson on Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wildflowers

By Pamela Henson | October 12, 2022

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