History

Film History

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”

 
By Michelle Morgan  May 27, 2022
Italian Literature

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

By Marco Belpoliti and Clarissa Botsford  May 26, 2022
Reading Lists

The Dazzling, Treacherous World of New York City Real Estate

By Adam Piore  May 26, 2022
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Simon Parkin on an Unlikely Group of WWII Internees on the Isle of Man

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   May 26, 2022
Book Dreams

Is it Possible to Change the Way We Think About Work?

By Book Dreams  May 26, 2022
Comics

On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

By Tracy Dawson  May 25, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Thresholds

Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

By Thresholds   May 25, 2022
Keen On

Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.

By Keen On  May 25, 2022
The Renaissance

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

By Eden Collinsworth  May 24, 2022
Open Source

Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source  May 27, 2022
Technology

A Few Notes on the Past (and Possible Future) of Public Mourning

By A. J. Bermudez  May 23, 2022
Language

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza  May 20, 2022
Keen On

Is National Service the Only Way to Stitch America Back Together?

By Andrew Keen  May 20, 2022
Basketball

Unearthing the Pre-NBA History of African American Basketball

Claude Johnson on the Stories We Almost Lost

By Claude Johnson  May 20, 2022
Open Source

Are We Worried Enough About Nuclear Weapons?

By Open Source  May 20, 2022
Language

Alexander Maksik on Writing About Post-Recession New York

By Dwyer Murphy  May 20, 2022
The Cold War

When Sidney Poitier Went to the Moscow Film Festival

By George Stevens, Jr.  May 19, 2022
Civil Rights

My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

David J. Dennis Jr. on a Childhood Shaped By the Movement

By David Dennis Jr.  May 19, 2022
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Gregory D. Smithers on Amplifying the History and Voices of Indigenous Resistance

By The Virtual Book Channel  May 19, 2022
Psychology

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary  May 18, 2022
Artists

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

By John Taylor Williams  May 18, 2022
Literary History

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead  May 18, 2022
Sex

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

By Rachel Feltman  May 18, 2022
Origin Stories

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

By Putsata Reang  May 18, 2022
Keen On

Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

By Keen On  May 24, 2022
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