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A Conversation with Charles Person, the Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders

A Conversation with Charles Person, the Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | August 26, 2021

Commandos in Canoes: On the Special Boat Service of WWII

Commandos in Canoes: On the Special Boat Service of WWII

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | August 26, 2021

We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the Erasure of This Continent’s Original Inhabitants

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | August 25, 2021

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

Giles Tremlett on Gerda Taro, Who Documented the Spanish Civil War and Died in Action

By Giles Tremlett | August 25, 2021

Dorothy Parker is back in New York City—with a new and improved tombstone.

Dorothy Parker is back in New York City—with a new and improved tombstone.

By Walker Caplan | August 24, 2021

On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

Robert S. Levine Considers the White-Savior Complex of the 17th President

By Robert S. Levine | August 24, 2021

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Here's Benedict Cumberbatch reading Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to the people of 2088.

By Walker Caplan | August 23, 2021

Bill Steigerwald on Life Undercover as a Black Man in the Jim Crow South

By Keen On | August 23, 2021

Read a previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem.

By Walker Caplan | August 20, 2021

Behind Closed Doors: Documenting the Lives of the Elders in a Time of Plague

Behind Closed Doors: Documenting the Lives of the Elders in a Time of Plague

Sari Botton and Alexey Yurenev for The Longest Year: 2020+

By Sari Botton and Alexey Yurenev | August 20, 2021

Meet the Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”

Meet the Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”

Tom Standage on the Emergence of the Automobile,
and the Headaches That Came With It

By Tom Standage | August 20, 2021

Waiting in Darkness: My Time At Guantánamo

Waiting in Darkness: My Time At Guantánamo

Mansoor Adayfi on the Fifteen Years He Spent As Detainee #441

By Mansoor Adayfi | August 20, 2021

Federico García Lorca predicted his own death in a poem.

Federico García Lorca predicted his own death in a poem.

By Dan Sheehan | August 19, 2021

“Americans Are Bad at History.” At the Fault Lines of Memory and Propaganda

“Americans Are Bad at History.” At the Fault Lines of Memory and Propaganda

Patrick Nathan on the Inability to Carry Meaning Forward
and Distinguish Truth

By Patrick Nathan | August 19, 2021

How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

Rafia Zakaria on American Neoimperialism Lies of Liberation

By Rafia Zakaria | August 19, 2021

To Abandon Civilization with Glee: Tracking Tigers in the Russian Wilderness

To Abandon Civilization with Glee: Tracking Tigers in the Russian Wilderness

Jonathan Franklin on a Rafting Trip in the USSR with Tom Brokaw and the "Do Boys"

By Jonathan Franklin | August 19, 2021

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