• History

    The Hub

    C-SPAN is starting a (very “patriotic”) book club.

     
    By Brittany Allen  August 25, 2025
    The Hub

    The Black Cauldron turns 40 this year. Here’s why the famous flop is worth a second look.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    Fascism

    The Fascist History of Yoga

    By Stewart Home  August 22, 2025
    American West

    The Making of America’s Frontier Mythology Was the Making of America

    By Paul Andrew Hutton  August 22, 2025
    Iran

    Between Myth and Modernity: On Persian Stories, Identity, and the US-Iran Divide

    By Ryan Bani Tahmaseb  August 22, 2025
    Lesbian Literature

    On the Past and Future of Lesbian Pulp

    By Trish Bendix  August 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Style

    Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools

    By Kathleen B. Casey  August 21, 2025
    World War II

    Crossing the Atlantic During Britain’s Darkest Hour in World War II

    By Doug Most  August 20, 2025
    World War II

    After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

    By Garrett M. Graff  August 20, 2025
    Travel

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

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    Slavery

    Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery

    By Bitter Kalli  August 19, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

    By Ed Simon  August 18, 2025
    Philosophy

    How We Can Achieve a Good Life Through the Help of Others

    By Sebastian Purcell  August 18, 2025
    Ukraine

    A Million Sour Cherry Orchards: Olia Hercules on Remembering the Ghosts of Ukraine

    The Author of "Strong Roots" Paints a Portrait of Her Ancestral Land in the Wake of Russia's Invasion

    By Olia Hercules  August 15, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

    By Nathan Kernan  August 14, 2025
    American Revolution

    Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship

    By Matthew Redmond  August 13, 2025
    Sexuality

    How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

    By Margaret Grace Myers  August 13, 2025
    Literary History

    On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

    Tim Queeney Explores Ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s Wild Tale

    By Tim Queeney  August 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Can you match the novelist to their nom de plume?

    By Brittany Allen  August 11, 2025
    Language

    The Murky Story of Our First Storytellers: On the Mysterious Evolution of Human Language

    By Madeleine Beekman  August 11, 2025
    Climate Change

    Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

    By Sam Bloch  August 8, 2025
    Sociology

    After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

    Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on the New Normal For Global Population Growth and Decline

    By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso  August 8, 2025
    World War II

    The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

    By Greg Mitchell  August 8, 2025
    The Hub

    What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

    By Brittany Allen  August 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

    By Brittany Allen  August 19, 2025
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