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How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

Janet Wallach on the Making of Socialite and Spy Marguerite Harrison

By Janet Wallach | August 7, 2023

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

Christopher Cameron on the Complex Relationship Between Black Americans and the Black Church

By Christopher Cameron | July 27, 2023

Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History's Forgotten Women

Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History's Forgotten Women

Anne Boyd Rioux Considers How We Tell the Stories of Picasso’s Mistresses

By Anne Boyd Rioux | July 26, 2023

Poe vs. Himself: On the Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poe vs. Himself: On the Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anne Whitehouse Tells the Story of the Little Longfellow War

By Anne Whitehouse | July 24, 2023

Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

“Even if you didn’t think you could do something, he believed you could, and then you did.”

By Ann Magnuson | July 20, 2023

Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

“Creating for more than the white gaze or the male gaze was the goal.”

By Mikki Kendall | July 20, 2023

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Talking to the Mafia About Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, and Jimmy Hoffa

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How Lauren Bacall Secured Her Legendary Love Story with Humphrey Bogart

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