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History

War Reporting

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”

 
By Christina Lamb  August 9, 2022
The Hub

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

By Jonny Diamond  August 8, 2022
American History

How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

By Rinker Buck  August 8, 2022
On Race

“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

By Vanessa Hua  August 8, 2022
Keen On

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

By Andrew Keen  August 5, 2022
New Books Network

Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

By New Books Network  August 5, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Keen On

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

By Keen On  August 4, 2022
Art History

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

By Mark Braude  August 4, 2022
18th Century History

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

By Angus Robertson  August 4, 2022
Abortion Rights

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Bernadette Jiwa on Her Grandmother’s Death and the Need to Keep History Close

By Bernadette Jiwa  August 9, 2022
Folklore

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

By Emma Seckel  August 3, 2022
Keen On

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

By Keen On  August 2, 2022
Emergence Magazine

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

By Emergence Magazine  August 1, 2022
The History of Literature

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature  August 1, 2022
Indigenous Lit

Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

By Oscar Hokeah  July 28, 2022
Political Science

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

By Eve Fairbanks  July 28, 2022
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   July 28, 2022
just the right book

Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book   July 28, 2022
Women in Science

“She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

By Kathy Kleiman  July 27, 2022
World War II

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

By Jerry W. Carlson  July 27, 2022
Indigenous History

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

By Sofia Ali-Khan  July 27, 2022
Elections

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

G. Elliott Morris on the Enduring Gulf Between Electoral Predictions and Reality

By G. Elliott Morris  July 27, 2022
The Hub

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond  July 26, 2022
Coming of Age

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

By Satya Doyle Byock  July 26, 2022
Keen On

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

By Keen On  August 4, 2022
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