“Will There Be War in the Morning?” Inside the Home of Italy’s Foreign Minister, August, 1939

“Will There Be War in the Morning?” Inside the Home of Italy’s Foreign Minister, August, 1939

Tilar J. Mazzeo on Galeazzo Ciano and His Wife (and Mussolini’s Daughter) Edda

By Tilar J. Mazzeo | June 21, 2022

On Civil Rights Activist Curtis Graves' Groundbreaking Electoral Campaign

On Civil Rights Activist Curtis Graves' Groundbreaking Electoral Campaign

Nick Seabrook on the 1966 Texas State Legislature Election

By Nick Seabrook | June 16, 2022

What Sally Mann’s Work Says About Art and Motherhood

What Sally Mann’s Work Says About Art and Motherhood

Whitney Otto on the Legacy of a Groundbreaking American Photographer

By Whitney Otto | June 15, 2022

How Eudora Welty Captured 1930s New York City on Film

How Eudora Welty Captured 1930s New York City on Film

Annette Trefzer on What Welty Learned From Berenice Abbott

By Annette Trefzer | June 15, 2022

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

Frank Close on the Early Scientific Education of the Man Who Discovered the Higgs Boson

By Frank Close | June 15, 2022

“Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read Letters from Ernest Hemingway to His Son

“Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read Letters from Ernest Hemingway to His Son

Patrick Hemingway in Key West, Papa in Cuba

By Ernest Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway | June 14, 2022

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James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

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When Rob Reiner’s Alter Ego (Harry) Met Nora Ephron’s Alter Ego (Sally)

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Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

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Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo

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How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

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How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

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Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

By Philip Dray | June 2, 2022

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