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How the Oversimplified “Gentrification Narrative” Was Born

How the Oversimplified “Gentrification Narrative” Was Born

Bo McMillan on the Novels of L.J. Davis and What Certain Kinds of Stories Reveal About Cities

By Bo McMillan | July 29, 2021

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>?

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!?

W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Faulkner’s Fiction, His Longtime Home, and the University of Mississippi

By W. Ralph Eubanks | July 29, 2021

Patrick Wyman on the “Great Divergence” Between Western Europe and the Rest of the Globe

Patrick Wyman on the “Great Divergence” Between Western Europe and the Rest of the Globe

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 29, 2021

Calum Douglas on the Race for Engineering Supremacy During WWII

Calum Douglas on the Race for Engineering Supremacy During WWII

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | July 29, 2021

The U.S. has finally taken back the Epic of Gilgamesh . . . from Hobby Lobby.

The U.S. has finally taken back the Epic of Gilgamesh . . . from Hobby Lobby.

By Walker Caplan | July 28, 2021

On the Working Women of the West, from Settlers to Suffragists

On the Working Women of the West, from Settlers to Suffragists

Winifred Gallagher on a Workforce Revolution for the History Books

By Winifred Gallagher | July 28, 2021

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“There is an inclination to punish women.” Elizabeth Hardwick on writing while female.

By Walker Caplan | July 27, 2021

The Overlooked Story of Two Women in the Southampton Slave Rebellion

By Vanessa M. Holden | July 27, 2021

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

By Mary Jo Bang | July 26, 2021

On Molly Williams, One of America’s First Female Firefighters

On Molly Williams, One of America’s First Female Firefighters

Jaime Lowe Traces the History of “Volunteer” Firefighting as a New Form of Servitude

By Jaime Lowe | July 26, 2021

Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 26, 2021

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts

By Arika Okrent | July 23, 2021

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 22, 2021

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

On the Colonialism of Contemporary Education

By Leigh Patel | July 22, 2021

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America... to Americans

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America... to Americans

Geoffrey Hilsabeck on the Dizzying Dream of This Country’s First Entertainment Industry

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck | July 22, 2021

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

Looking Back at Apollo Missions 14 and 15, and the Crater that Eluded Mankind

By Earl Swift | July 21, 2021

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