History

Green New Deal

Lesson From the Old New Deal: What Economic Recovery Might Look Like in the 21st Century

Kate Aronoff Draws a Direct Line From 1934 to the Green New Deal of Today

 
By Kate Aronoff  April 23, 2021
The Hub

Everything you need to know about this week’s manufactured Jane Austen controversy.

By Walker Caplan  April 22, 2021
New York City

Reading the History of Manhattan in Its Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

By Antonis Antoniou & Steven Heller  April 22, 2021
Activism

Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

By Fatima Bhutto  April 22, 2021
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Steve Ballinger on Removing the Remains of War, Nearly 80
Years On

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   April 22, 2021
Genetics

How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

By Audrey Clare Farley  April 22, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Immigration

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

By Emmanuel Mbolela  April 22, 2021
High Society

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

By Renée Rosen  April 22, 2021
Book Dreams

Megan Rosenbloom on the History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By Book Dreams  April 22, 2021
Photography

Chillnobyl: Throwing a Rave Deep in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone

“When they closed the Zone it became a dead end. It’s good to see young people here!”

By Darmon Richter  April 23, 2021
The Hub

The University of Cape Town’s African Studies Library, ravaged by wildfire, needs your help.

By Walker Caplan  April 21, 2021
American Classics

Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic

By Erica Vital-Lazare  April 21, 2021
Indigenous Peoples

Native Spaces: Tracing the History of California Indians and Sacred Land

By Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr.  April 21, 2021
The Hub

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

By Walker Caplan  April 20, 2021
WWII

How a Queer Couple Masterminded a Nazi Resistance Campaign

By Jeffrey H. Jackson  April 20, 2021
Astrophysics

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

By Guido Tonelli  April 19, 2021
American History

Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

By Brian Castner  April 19, 2021
Ukrainian Literature

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Kate Tsurkan Recommends Andriy Lyubka, Olesya Yaremchuk,
and More

By Kate Tsurkan  April 19, 2021
Walking

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

By Jeremy DeSilva  April 19, 2021
Keen On

Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

By Keen On  April 19, 2021
The Hub

Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
The Hub

Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
Queer Literature

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  April 16, 2021
Journalism

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

By Kim Todd  April 16, 2021
The Hub

Alyssa Collins has been awarded the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.

By Walker Caplan  April 21, 2021
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