• History

    Language

    On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

    Martha Barnette Explores the Shared Proto-Indo-European Origins of a Diverse Group of Modern Languages

     
    By Martha Barnette  August 6, 2025
    The Hub

    One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

    By Brittany Allen  August 5, 2025
    Scandals

    Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

    By Nell Stevens  August 4, 2025
    literary criticism

    How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

    By Shilo Kino  August 4, 2025
    The Hub

    Why you should read Howard Zinn’s Artists in Times of War now.

    By James Folta  July 30, 2025
    Medicine

    How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines

    By Tom Zeller Jr.  July 30, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Colonialism

    White Sugar, Black Bodies: How Slavery Fueled an 18th-Century British Obsession

    By Mathelinda Nabugodi  July 29, 2025
    The Hub

    Biologists named a sex pheromone found in mouse urine after Mr. Darcy.

    By James Folta  July 28, 2025
    The Hub

    4Columns is closing up shop. Here are 10 unmissable pieces from their archives.

    By Brittany Allen  July 24, 2025
    True Crime

    The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

    Joshua Sharpe on the Horror and Aftermath of the 1985 Georgia Church Murders

    By Joshua Sharpe  August 6, 2025
    World War II

    Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

    By Iain MacGregor  July 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Why Clueless is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.

    By Brittany Allen  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
    Geology

    How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

    Laura Poppick on the Power and Permanence of Nature's Coldest Element

    By Laura Poppick  July 22, 2025
    Architecture

    A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm

    By Henry Wiencek  July 22, 2025
    American History

    Painting the Revolution:
    The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence

    By Zara Anishanslin  July 17, 2025
    Photography

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 2025
    Psychedelics

    Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

    Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug

    By Andrew R. Gallimore  July 16, 2025
    Cultural History

    How Belle Époque Paris Captured the Hearts of American Travelers and Artists

    By Jennifer Dasal  July 16, 2025
    Travel

    Black authors’ houses are historically hard to preserve. Here’s why (plus, a few to visit).

    By Brittany Allen  July 15, 2025
    Identity

    In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

    By Madeline Potter  July 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  July 11, 2025
    On Race

    Other Worlds, Other Futures: On Black Panther and the Dream of Escapist Emancipation

    By Ekow Eshun  July 11, 2025
    Billionaires

    A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon… Or Both?

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

    By Tanya Talaga  July 24, 2025
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