History

Cities

Between Pastureland and Progress:
On the Many Lives of an American City

Sarah Wagner Tells a Tale of Lexington, Kentucky

 
By Sarah Wagner  November 15, 2019
New Books Network

Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

By New Books Network  November 15, 2019
Public Intellectuals

The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
Language

Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
Politics

Life Inside Guantánamo:
An Oral History

By Peter Jan Honigsberg  November 13, 2019
American History

On the Missing History at New York’s Battleship Intrepid Museum

By James W. Loewen  November 13, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Art History

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

By John Richardson  November 13, 2019
Public Intellectuals

On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

By Nicholas Buccola  November 12, 2019
Biology

It Turns Out There’s Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis  November 12, 2019
Oddities

The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana

Trapped Between High Society and the Freak Show

By John Woolf  November 15, 2019
Abortion Rights

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

By Jeffrey Rosen  November 11, 2019
Impeachment

The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

By Liesl Schillinger  November 8, 2019
Berlin Wall

Reading Beyond the Wall: 7 Acclaimed Books About and From East Germany

By Olivia Giovetti  November 8, 2019
Berlin Wall

Toppled: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

Paul Vidich on the Timeline of a Historic Night

By Paul Vidich  November 8, 2019
LGBTQ History

How Lou Sullivan’s Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

By Callum Angus  November 8, 2019
American History

On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar  November 8, 2019
Feminism

Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

By Nathalia Holt  November 8, 2019
Mental Illness

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

Nellie Bly Committed Herself to the Infamous Blackwell Island Asylum Just to Get the Story

By Susannah Cahalan  November 7, 2019
Architecture

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

By Paul Hendrickson  November 6, 2019
Activism

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

By Franny Nudelman  November 6, 2019
LGBTQ History

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

By Mo Rocca  November 6, 2019
European History

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

Brendan Simms on Hitler's Stay in Prison, and the Scapegoating of Modernity

By Brendan Simms  November 5, 2019
Abortion

Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

By Lindy West  November 5, 2019
American History

How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

By Sherrod Brown  November 5, 2019
Medieval History

Spanking, Signing, Reading:
On the Medieval Use of Hands

By Jack Hartnell  November 12, 2019
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