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How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns on General Custer, Buffalo Bill and Grand Duke Alexis

By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns | October 16, 2023

Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

On Conclusions

By Aleksander Hemon | October 12, 2023

Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

David Mitchell Considers the Less-Than-Illustrious Origins of the English Crown

By David Mitchell | October 11, 2023

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of "Ye Olde" in English

Hana Videen on Chaucer, Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English

By Hana Videen | October 10, 2023

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

From Patrick Weil's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Madman in the White House

By Patrick Weil | October 9, 2023

What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

Nabila Ramdani on the Relationship Between Terrorism and the French State

By Nabila Ramdani | October 6, 2023

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From Mackenzie Cooley's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Perfection of Nature

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How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

Matthew Connelly on Human Cost of Secret Science

By Matthew Connelly | October 2, 2023

“Come and Take It”: How the Aftermath of Sandy Hook Led to More AR-15s Being Sold Than Ever Before

“Come and Take It”: How the Aftermath of Sandy Hook Led to More AR-15s Being Sold Than Ever Before

On American Gun Makers and Social Media Conspiracies

By Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson | October 2, 2023

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

From Alison Bashford's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

By Alison Bashford | September 28, 2023

From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's <em>Dune</em>

From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's Dune

"Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."

By Ryan Britt | September 27, 2023

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

A Short History of the First Folio

By Gregory Doran | September 27, 2023

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