• History

    American History

    On John Brown and the Rise of the Radical Republican Abolitionists

    By LeeAnna Keith  January 16, 2020
    American Identity

    John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

    By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
    Economics

    On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

    By Nicholas Shaxson  January 15, 2020
    Beauty

    Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance
    ‘Books of Secrets’

    By Meghan Racklin  January 15, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

    By Jessica Andrews  January 15, 2020
    American History

    Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

    By Literary Hub  January 14, 2020
    American Classics

    How Edith Wharton’s Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

    By Jennifer Egan  January 14, 2020
    Literary History

    My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

    By Martha Cooley  January 14, 2020
    American History

    Life at the End of American Empire

    By Richard Lachmann  January 14, 2020
    Literary History

    J.M. Barrie’s Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan

    By Literary Hub  January 13, 2020
    The Writing Life

    At Nancy Mitford’s Grave, Where Romanticism Meets Reality

    By Laura Thompson  January 10, 2020
    American History

    By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

    By David Zucchino  January 9, 2020
    Antifascists

    On the Antifascist Activists Who Fought in the Streets Long Before Antifa

    By Bill V. Mullen and Christopher Vials  January 9, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

    By John Kaag and Douglas Anderson  January 9, 2020
    Travel

    The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

    By Candacy Taylor  January 8, 2020
    Reading Women

    Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

    By Reading Women  January 8, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

    By Daniyal Mueenuddin  January 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 6, 2020
    Feminist Classics

    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2020
    History

    On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

    By Camilla Townsend  December 19, 2019
    On Racism

    The Governor’s Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

    By Peggy Wallace Kennedy  December 19, 2019
    Sex

    One Man’s Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

    By Susan G. Davis  December 18, 2019
    Anthropology

    Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

    By Guy Crosby  December 17, 2019
    Ancient History

    On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  December 17, 2019
    American History

    Bringing Hitler’s Hidden Army to Justice

    By Debbie Cenziper  December 16, 2019
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