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History

New in Nonfiction

When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

By Jay Parini  June 6, 2019
Democracy

Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

By Jonathan A. Rodden  June 6, 2019
American History

Antony DeCurtis on the Instruments Behind Iconic Rock ‘n’ Roll Moments

By Anthony DeCurtis  June 5, 2019
Queer History

The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019

By Charles Kaiser  June 5, 2019
American History

The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History

By Tyler Mills  June 5, 2019
The Cartels

Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

By Dan Werb  June 5, 2019
American History

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

By Jill Lepore  June 4, 2019
Women's suffrage

On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

By Kate Lemay  June 4, 2019
The Paranormal

When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

By Matt Tompkins  May 30, 2019
Architecture

On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York’s Skyline

By Anthony Alofsin  May 29, 2019
Literary History

My Decade-Long Fascination with the Tale of Monica Lewinsky

By Mandy Berman  May 29, 2019
The Hub

The most recent “crisis in the humanities” is really just a case of crossed wires.

By Aaron Robertson  May 24, 2019
Literary History

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

By Jaime Fuller  May 24, 2019
History of Science

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

By Matthew Stanley  May 22, 2019
Radicalism

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall  May 22, 2019
The Hub

The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week…

By Aaron Robertson  May 20, 2019
Politics

In India, One Publisher’s High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

By Liesl Schwabe  May 20, 2019
The Hub

L. Frank Baum’s first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

By Emily Temple  May 17, 2019
LGBTQ History

Moving Through New York’s Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

By George Chauncey  May 17, 2019
Literary History

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

By Leo Damrosch  May 16, 2019
American History

Inside San Francisco’s Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

By Julia Flynn Siler  May 15, 2019
American History

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

By Susan Ware  May 13, 2019
New in Nonfiction

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

By Jeanna Kadlec  May 13, 2019
Plagues

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

By David K. Randall  May 9, 2019
American Presidents

We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

By Douglas Brinkley  May 8, 2019
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