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History

Essay

Virginia Woolf’s Depression Shouldn’t Define Her

By Maggie Gee  March 6, 2019
Excerpts

Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca’s Last Days

By Aaron Shulman  March 5, 2019
Literary History

If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

By Liesl Schillinger  February 26, 2019
Essay

The Black Women Who Wrote America’s Earliest Autofiction

By Maryam Kazeem  February 25, 2019
Excerpts

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

By Duncan Ryūken Williams  February 25, 2019
Deep Dive

When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

By Sasha Archibald  February 21, 2019
Excerpts

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

By Daniel Immerwahr  February 20, 2019
Essay

Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

By Margaret Verble  February 19, 2019
Excerpts

What Eight Missing Manuscript Pages Can Tell Us About a 20th-Century Genocide

By Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh  February 15, 2019
Excerpts

What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen  February 14, 2019
Essay

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

By Michael Ursell  February 13, 2019
Excerpts

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

By Will Hunt  February 12, 2019
Excerpts

How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

By Lucy Inglis  February 5, 2019
Deep Dive

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico’s Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

By Claire Mullen  February 1, 2019
Excerpts

The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

By Stephen Koch  January 31, 2019
Essay

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

By Stephen Benz  January 30, 2019
Excerpts

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

By Ntozake Shange  January 29, 2019
Essay

Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe’s Contemporary Dystopia

By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma  January 29, 2019
Essay

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

By Emily Temple  January 25, 2019
Essay

My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

By Mark Mayer  January 25, 2019
Essay

A Brief Literary History of Davos

By Isabelle Mayault  January 24, 2019
Excerpts

In Aristotle’s Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

By Edith Hall  January 23, 2019
Excerpts

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World

By David Treuer  January 22, 2019
Excerpts

Did Diderot’s Legacy Live Up To His Genius?

By Andrew S. Curran  January 18, 2019
Essay

The Temptations of Playing the Muse

By Samantha Silva  December 19, 2018
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