• History

    Nomads

    Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

    By Kapka Kassabova  August 7, 2024
    Inspiration

    Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

    By Kate Weinberg  August 7, 2024
    Cultural History

    Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

    By Ellen Ruppel Shell  August 5, 2024
    Storytelling

    Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

    By Ed Simon  August 5, 2024
    Twitterverse

    10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

    By Brittany Allen  August 2, 2024
    American Icons

    A Century of James Baldwin

    By Literary Hub  August 2, 2024
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention

    By Clara Bingham  July 30, 2024
    Queer History

    The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

    By Daisy Dunn  July 30, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    From Senegal to the Virgin Islands: The Weirdness of Having Fun While Writing About Historical Trauma

    By Mai Sennaar  July 30, 2024
    Sports

    Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 29, 2024
    The Hub

    Cool merch for classic novels.

    By James Folta  July 24, 2024
    Colonialism

    “Weapons of Health Destruction…” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

    By Andrea Freeman  July 24, 2024
    Ancient History

    What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society

    By Paul Cooper  July 24, 2024
    On Teaching

    A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

    By Nate Powell  July 22, 2024
    Women's Bodies

    How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

    By Natalie Lampert  July 19, 2024
    Skateboarding

    How a Generation of Women and Queer Skateboarders Fought for Visibility and Recognition

    By Deborah Stoll  July 18, 2024
    Literary History

    The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

    By Michael Castleman  July 18, 2024
    History of Science

    How Did Phrenology Get So Popular in Victorian Society?

    By Michael Taylor  July 17, 2024
    The Natural World

    In Praise of Ginkgo Biloba, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

    By Amy Stewart  July 17, 2024
    Children's Literature

    How Judy Blume’s Deenie Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

    By Rachelle Bergstein  July 16, 2024
    On Memoir

    What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

    By Justin St. Germain  July 15, 2024
    The Natural World

    How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World

    By James Bradley  July 15, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    “I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

    By Howard Norman  July 12, 2024
    The Hub

    They paved Pemberley and put up a parking lot.

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2024
    Irish Literature

    Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

    By Jan Carson  July 10, 2024
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