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History

Cults

Planet Koresh: Inside the Mount Carmel Compound in Waco, Texas

Kevin Cook on the Rise of David Koresh and the Branch Davidian Cult

 
By Kevin Cook  February 2, 2023
Keen On

Eleanor Shearer on Writing a Post-Slavery West Indian Novel Celebrating Motherhood and Resilience

By Keen On  February 1, 2023
What to Watch

Emily Disregards the Most Compelling Part of the Brontë Sisterhood

By Iona Glen  January 31, 2023
Lit Century

Revisiting Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War During Russia’s War on Ukraine

By Lit Century   January 31, 2023
News and Culture

How a Leading Voice of Eswatini Culture Was Erased From History

By Joel Cabrita  January 30, 2023
Politics

Journeys of a Humanitarian: How Jane Olson Emulated Her Hero Eleanor Roosevelt to Become a World Citizen

By Keen On  January 30, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
What to Watch

Daphne Sullivan’s Sunnily Subversive Hedonism is Best Described by Midcentury Writer Rebecca West

By Julia Cooke  January 27, 2023
Astrophysics

How a Catholic Priest Discovered the Expansion of the Universe

By Dan Levitt  January 26, 2023
Food History

The Invention of Fettuccine Alfredo: A Love Story

By Luca Cesari  January 26, 2023
Keen On

The Return of the Dissident Academic Model: Balazs Trencsenyi on the Invisible University for Ukraine

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On  February 2, 2023
Politics

This Is Not Who We Are: Zachary Shore on America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue

By Keen On  January 26, 2023
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Alina Adams and Masha Rumer on Writing History as It Happens

By The Virtual Book Channel  January 26, 2023
Keen On

Valentine Low on How the British Royal Family is Transforming Itself Into a 21st-Century Institution

By Keen On  January 26, 2023
Biography

“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

Robert D. Richardson on the Writers’ Grief-Stricken Observations

By Robert D. Richardson  January 25, 2023
Civil Rights

How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

By Dan Berger  January 25, 2023
What to Watch

Watching the Films of Weimar Germany to Understand Our Increasingly Fascistic Present

By Travis Mushett  January 25, 2023
Keen On

George McCalman’s Illustrated Black American History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

By Keen On  January 25, 2023
Literary Biography

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

Emily J. Orlando on the Writer’s Enduring Relevance and Foresight

By Emily J. Orlando  January 24, 2023
Archives

Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

By Alan Mikhail  January 23, 2023
Emergence Magazine

Jamie Figueroa: Prophecies of Possibility and a Ripening of the Next World

By Emergence Magazine  January 23, 2023
Keen On

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

By Keen On  January 23, 2023
What to Watch

Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos

By Ethan Warren  January 20, 2023
Economics

Debunking the Coconut Myth: An Economist Breaks Down a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Cause of Poverty in Poor Countries

By Ha-Joon Chang  January 20, 2023
Genetics

How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death

By Dale Greenwalt  January 18, 2023
Keen On

Forget Generative AI: Margaret Heffernan on Why the Future Remains Up To Us

By Keen On  January 26, 2023
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