History

Class

Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

David R. Roediger on the Myth of American Exceptionalism

 
By David R. Roediger  September 28, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
Myth

Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

By Vaughn Scribner  September 28, 2020
Emergence Magazine

Language Keepers: Compiling the First Ever Wukchumni Dictionary

By Emergence Magazine  September 28, 2020
In Memoriam

Scenes From a Vigil: New York City Mourns the Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By Rachel Cobb  September 25, 2020
War

Pesticides, Incendiaries… How US Chemical Companies Endeared Themselves to the Public

By Frank A. von Hippel  September 25, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
American Presidents

How the US-Soviet Relationship Shaped Eisenhower’s Presidency

By Tim Weiner  September 25, 2020
LGBTQ

On Alternative Forms of Communal Care and Expanded Kinship Circles

By The Care Collective  September 25, 2020
The Quarantine Tapes

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., on the Urgency of James Baldwin’s Lessons

By The Quarantine Tapes  September 24, 2020
Censorship

Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

Amir Ahmadi Arian on Creative Freedom and Sitting at the "Gate of Law"

By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
Keen On

Why Americans Don’t Care About Their Presidents’ Sex Scandals

By Keen On  September 24, 2020
Fiction/Non/Fiction

The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the ‘New South’ and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There

By Fiction Non Fiction  September 24, 2020
Sexuality

On the “Misogyny Paradox” and the Crisis of Heterosexual Coupledom

By Jane Ward  September 24, 2020
The Maris Review

Colin Dickey on Why Americans Are So Keen to Believe Conspiracies

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review  September 24, 2020
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

AC/DC’s Brian Johnson on Jumping Out of Parachutes and Cursing Mick Jagger

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 24, 2020
Art History

Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

By Jennifer Dasal  September 23, 2020
Freeman's

Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

By Paul Hendrickson  September 23, 2020
Economics

What Does It Mean To Buy From Black-Owned Businesses?

Cassi Pittman Claytor on Buying Power, Racial Uplift, and the Black Middle Class

By Cassi Pittman Claytor  September 23, 2020
Keen On

Don’t Trust the Populists: Globalization Isn’t the Problem

By Keen On  September 23, 2020
Injustice

Was a Lakota Sioux Wrongly Accused of Murder During the Wounded Knee Occupation?

By Gerry Spence  September 23, 2020
The Hub

Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.

By Dan Sheehan  September 22, 2020
Letters Home

The Fault Lines of Midwestern
Racism Run Deep

Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Letter to Wisconsin

By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  September 22, 2020
Prizes

WATCH: The Shortlist Announcement for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

By Literary Hub  September 22, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

By Jon Sternfeld  September 22, 2020
Mythology

Fornicating and Fighting: A Brief History of the Ancient Cult of Aphrodite

By Bettany Hughes  September 24, 2020
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