History

Activism

Can Generation Z Save America? (And Should They Have To?)

John Della Volpe Wonders If Demography Can Save Democracy

 
By John Della Volpe  January 20, 2022
Indigenous History

“Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

By Julie Dobrow  January 20, 2022
Communism

The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

By Lea Ypi  January 20, 2022
Medicine

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

By Janice P. Nimura  January 19, 2022
On Racism

Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

By Jonny Diamond  January 18, 2022
Mathematics

How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World

By Michael Brooks  January 18, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Archives

The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

By Jim Moske  January 18, 2022
Literary History

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart  January 18, 2022
The Hub

Émile Zola was a bad art friend.

By Walker Caplan  January 14, 2022
Publishing

Zora Neale Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print

And How “Public Indifference” Reinforces the Status Quo

By Zora Neale Hurston  January 20, 2022
The Hub

James Joyce was only 9 years old when he published his first poem.

By Walker Caplan  January 13, 2022
Diarists

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

By Leigh Stein  January 13, 2022
Blackness

Lewis R. Gordon on the Development of Black Consciousness

By Lewis R. Gordon  January 13, 2022
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

We Have Ways of Making You Talk on the Allied Forces Training Methods

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   January 13, 2022
Artists

How Artists Navigate the Interplay of Authority and Freedom

By Jed Perl  January 12, 2022
Economics

On the Hidden Fight Inside the Federal Reserve That Reshaped American Economic Life

By Christopher Leonard  January 12, 2022
Psychology

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

By Leonard Mlodinow  January 12, 2022
Tourism

Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley

Harley Rustad on the Mystery of the Disappeared

By Harley Rustad  January 11, 2022
Archeology

How Stolen Cultural Artifacts Made Their Way to a Major Museum

By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm  January 11, 2022
Libraries

A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

By Georg Ruppelt  January 10, 2022
Indigenous Lit

Learning From Almanac of the Dead, a Hallmark of Indigenous Literature

By Lou Cornum  January 10, 2022
Running

The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

Danielle Friedman Considers the Groundbreaking Impact of Kathrine Switzer

By Danielle Friedman  January 7, 2022
Monarchy

No Sympathy for Horrid Women: On the History of George V and the Demands of the Suffragettes

By Jane Ridley  January 7, 2022
Gossip

What Did Gossip Culture Look Like Before the Internet?

By Julia Kelly  January 7, 2022
Trauma

Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath

By Jonathan Gleason  January 14, 2022
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