The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

On the Revelatory Scandals of Elizabeth Chudleigh, aka the Duchess Countess

By Catherine Ostler | February 17, 2022

What Is China Reading Right Now?

What Is China Reading Right Now?

Megan Walsh on the “Little Emperors” of Contemporary Chinese Literature

By Megan Walsh | February 17, 2022

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 17, 2022

How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

Anne F. Hyde on the Implications of the Homestead Act on Indigenous Land

By Anne F. Hyde | February 17, 2022

Read President Obama’s citation of Maya Angelou when awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Read President Obama’s citation of Maya Angelou when awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

By Walker Caplan | February 16, 2022

Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

Bernd Brunner Considers the Perpetual Reinvention and Reconstruction of the North

By Bernd Brunner | February 16, 2022

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David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

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Activist Learning: How Anti-Vietnam War Academics Reinvented the Strike

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Ellen Schrecker on the American Tradition of Campus Protest

By Ellen Schrecker | February 14, 2022

Dara Horn on How Jewish History is Exploited to Flatter the Living

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On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

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How an Ancient Piece of Jewelry Changed Our Concept of Viking History

How an Ancient Piece of Jewelry Changed Our Concept of Viking History

Cat Jarman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 14, 2022

Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

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By Keen On | February 11, 2022

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