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The Battle of Atlantic, 80 Years Later

The Battle of Atlantic, 80 Years Later

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | August 11, 2022

Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

On President Warren G. Harding’s Airedale Terrier

By Andrew Hager | August 10, 2022

From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law

From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law

To Say Abortion is Not “Deeply Rooted” in American History is Wrong

By Elisabeth Griffith | August 10, 2022

What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

What Should We Be Celebrating on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples?

Kate Finn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 10, 2022

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”

By Christina Lamb | August 9, 2022

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Bernadette Jiwa on Her Grandmother’s Death and the Need to Keep History Close

By Bernadette Jiwa | August 9, 2022

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How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

By Jonny Diamond | August 8, 2022

How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

By Rinker Buck | August 8, 2022

“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

By Vanessa Hua | August 8, 2022

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

Andrew Keen on Why We Remain Prisoners of History

By Andrew Keen | August 5, 2022

Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | August 5, 2022

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

Dan Fesperman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

By Mark Braude | August 4, 2022

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

Angus Robertson on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Experiences in the Heart of the Holy Roman Empire

By Angus Robertson | August 4, 2022

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Kevin Boyle in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

Emma Seckel on the Weightiness of History and the Vastness of Landscape

By Emma Seckel | August 3, 2022

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