• History

    Feminism

    What We Can Learn from Feminist Rage

    By Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar  August 19, 2021
    The Hub

    12 new opinions on Lolita that no one’s invented yet.

    By Walker Caplan  August 18, 2021
    Literary History

    On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

    By Mark Haskell Smith  August 18, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Tracing the Crisis of Desertification to Colonization

    By Lisa Wells  August 18, 2021
    Capitalism

    How the Humble Avocado Went from the Unwanted “Crocodile Pear” to America’s Favorite Superfood

    By Andy Robinson  August 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look at the 35-pound comic scrapbook that paints a picture of Great Depression-era life.

    By Walker Caplan  August 17, 2021
    Big Table

    Mariella Guzzoni on Van Gogh’s Love of Literature

    By Big Table  August 17, 2021
    Keen On

    J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre and Whitewashed History

    By Keen On  August 16, 2021
    Psychology

    Mapping the Cerebral: What Are Dreams and Why Are They Essential?

    By Sidarta Ribeiro  August 16, 2021
    Police

    Fictionalizing a Dark Chapter in the History of Milwaukee Policing

    By Willa C. Richards  August 13, 2021
    Victorian Era

    The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

    By Siân Evans  August 12, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    James Daly on the D-Day Operations That Never Happened

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   August 12, 2021
    Freedom of Speech

    Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

    By Siri Hustvedt  August 11, 2021
    Nazi Germany

    Remembering the Artists Who Were Among the Early Victims of Nazi Death Camps

    By Charlie English  August 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look at Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a Swedish edition of The Hobbit.

    By Walker Caplan  August 10, 2021
    Terrorism

    The White Christian Nationalism Behind the Worst Terrorist Attack in American History

    By Spencer Ackerman  August 10, 2021
    Physics

    The 18th-Century Quaker Farmboy Who Laid the Groundwork for Atomic Theory

    By Harry Cliff  August 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Tove Jansson’s short story composed of bizarre fan letters.

    By Walker Caplan  August 9, 2021
    Nazi Germany

    A Day in the Life of an 11-Year-Old Spy in 1939 Berlin

    By Rebecca Donner  August 9, 2021
    On Race

    What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

    By LaTanya McQueen  August 9, 2021
    Scandinavian Literature

    On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

    By Arthur Herman  August 9, 2021
    New Books Network

    Ron Nyren on Delving into San Francisco’s Storied History

    By New Books Network  August 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look at a young Flannery O’Connor’s satirical cartoons.

    By Walker Caplan  August 6, 2021
    Keen On

    Edward J. Watts on the Fall of Rome and the Dangerous Rhetoric of Decline

    By Keen On  August 5, 2021
    Police Violence

    Why We Have Police: Race, Class, and Labor Control

    By Philip V. McHarris  August 4, 2021
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