• History

    American History

    Painting the Revolution:
    The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence

    Zara Anishanslin on the Forgotten History of the Transatlantic Artists Who Promoted the Patriot Cause

     
    By Zara Anishanslin  July 17, 2025
    Psychedelics

    Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

    By Andrew R. Gallimore  July 16, 2025
    Cultural History

    How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists

    By Jennifer Dasal  July 16, 2025
    Travel

    Black authors’ houses are historically hard to preserve. Here’s why (plus, a few to visit).

    By Brittany Allen  July 15, 2025
    Identity

    In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

    By Madeline Potter  July 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  July 11, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Race

    Other Worlds, Other Futures: On Black Panther and the Dream of Escapist Emancipation

    By Ekow Eshun  July 11, 2025
    Billionaires

    A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon… Or Both?

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    World War II

    The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

    By Tracy Slater  July 10, 2025
    Photography

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

    Anika Burgess on Daguerreotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Darkroom Dangers

    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

    By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2025
    Literary History

    Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

    By Sam Kelly  July 8, 2025
    Prison

    Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2025
    American History

    On America’s First Highway: Preparing For a Trip Along the Great Wagon Road

    James Dodson Explores the History and Legacy of Early Colonial Expansion

    By James Dodson  July 7, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
    Corporate America

    Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

    By Leigh Claire La Berge  July 1, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 27, 2025
    Language

    “Bookworm, Cliché, Deadline…” And Other Unexpected Etymologies

    David Crystal Explores the Unlikely Stories Behind Some Common Turns of Phrase

    By David Crystal  June 27, 2025
    Literary History

    Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

    By Nicola Wilson  June 26, 2025
    Wrestling

    “Shakespeare in a Ring.” Hulk Hogan and the Rise of Pro Wrestling in the American Psyche

    By Marc Raimondi  June 25, 2025
    Food Writing

    How Amaranth Influenced Indigenous Culture and Cooking in the American Southwest

    By Michael Shaikh  June 25, 2025
    The Hub

    This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Hollywood

    Sodom and Gomorrah on Celluloid: How the Hays Code Took the Sex Out of Hollywood

    By Michael Koresky  June 24, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

    By Peter Balakian  July 9, 2025
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