History

The Hub

A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is up for auction.

 
By Walker Caplan  October 22, 2021
Culture Wars

How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

By Andrew Potter  October 21, 2021
Afghanistan

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

By Taran Khan  October 21, 2021
Keen On

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Innovation

By Keen On  October 21, 2021
The Hub

Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s Ulysses?

By Walker Caplan  October 20, 2021
Rural America

White Men, Land, and Literature: The Making (and Unmaking) of an American Pastoral

By Brad Kessler  October 20, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Literary History

How the TV Adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots Sparked a Cultural Awakening

By Wil Haygood  October 20, 2021
Keen On

Myisha Cherry on Anger as a Tool for Defeating Racism

By Keen On  October 20, 2021
Travel

Who is the mystery man caught on Google Maps writing a poem on the beach?

By Walker Caplan  October 19, 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction  October 21, 2021
Botany

Rebecca Solnit on the Myriad Meanings of the Rose

By Rebecca Solnit  October 19, 2021
Animals

How One Unexpected Phone Call Led to the Rescue of the Last Diving Horse in America

By Cynthia A. Branigan  October 19, 2021
Keen On

Vanessa Veselka on What the Next American Revolution Might Look Like

By Keen On  October 19, 2021
History

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Fought For Your Right to Get a Beer

Mallory O’Meara on a Surprising Gender Discrimination Case

By Mallory O'Meara  October 19, 2021
Old English

On the Various, Multipurposed Manuscripts of Canterbury Tales

By Mary Wellesley  October 19, 2021
The 2021 Cundill History Prize

Read from the 2021 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

By Literary Hub  October 19, 2021
The 2021 Cundill History Prize

On the Holocaust’s Impact on Survivors’ Early Childhood and Memory

By Rebecca Clifford  October 19, 2021
The 2021 Cundill History Prize

“To Bob or Not to Bob?” Revolution and the “Modern Girl” of 20th-Century Asia

From This Year's Cundill History Prize Shortlisted Title Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper

By Tim Harper  October 19, 2021
Colonialism

Amitav Ghosh on the Lies of History and How the Natural World Fights Back

By Ben Ehrenreich  October 18, 2021
Keen On

Mary Beard on What We Can Learn from Images of Roman Autocrats

By Keen On  October 18, 2021
Monsters

“Its eyes were as large as a dinner plate…” Encounters with Dragons in Early America

By Scott G. Bruce  October 18, 2021
Neuroscience

On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

Louise Fein Considers How the Misunderstood Neurological Disorder Has Been Unfairly Portrayed in Popular Fiction

By Louise Fein  October 18, 2021
The Holocaust

On Dr. Eduard Bloch, Hitler’s Family Physician (Who Happened to Be Jewish)

By Meriel Schindler  October 18, 2021
Emergence Magazine

“Unknitting Despair.” Catherine Bush on Reciprocity, Care, and Ecological Loss

By Emergence Magazine  October 18, 2021
The Hub

Did you know that Medieval physicians tied astrology handbooks to their belts for medical help?

By Jonny Diamond  October 19, 2021
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