History

Language

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts

 
By Arika Okrent  July 23, 2021
Education

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

By Leigh Patel  July 22, 2021
American History

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America… to Americans

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  July 22, 2021
Events

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

By Earl Swift  July 21, 2021
Poetry

Inside the Early Days of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

By Karen Jaime  July 21, 2021
Sexual Politics

How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

By Amy Sohn  July 20, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Surfing

Surfing as Sacrament: Returning to New York’s Waves on September 12, 2001

By Thad Ziolkowski  July 20, 2021
Keen On

Adrian Wooldridge on the American Revolt Against Meritocracy

By Keen On  July 20, 2021
News and Culture

David Lowery on the Strange, Arduous Journey of Adapting The Green Knight for Film

By David Lowery  July 19, 2021
Book Dreams

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams  July 22, 2021
Corruption

The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

By Elie Honig  July 19, 2021
Smells

A Brief History of Perfume: Visiting an Archive of Ancient Scents

By Sarah Everts  July 19, 2021
The Holocaust

How Two Telephone Books Tell a Condensed Story of the Holocaust

By Miljenko Jergović, translated by Mirza Purić  July 19, 2021
Cycling

How a Small French Newspaper Began the Tour de France

Adin Dobkin on L'Auto, the War Torn Year of 1919, and the Beginning of the Legendary Bike Ride

By Adin Dobkin  July 16, 2021
The Hub

For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
The Hub

A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Hans Onderwater on the Hunger Winter in the German-Occupied Netherlands

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   July 15, 2021
The Hub

“It was sickening”: Read Chekhov’s withering review of his own first play’s opening night.

By Walker Caplan  July 14, 2021
Migrations

How Sicilians Are Mobilizing in Support of Migrants’ Rights

By Jamie Mackay  July 14, 2021
Queer History

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

By Rae Nudson  July 14, 2021
Neuroscience

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

By Scott A. Small  July 13, 2021
The Hub

Take a virtual tour of Walden Pond.

By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
The Hub

Powell’s Books is celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a curated collection of 50 books.

By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
TV

The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross  July 12, 2021
Aesthetics

How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

By Nicholas Frankel  July 19, 2021
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