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Our Freedom is Fragile: Lessons From the Jewish Children Who Fled Nazi Germany

Our Freedom is Fragile: Lessons From the Jewish Children Who Fled Nazi Germany

Pamela Newton on the Legacy of the Kindertransport

By Pamela Newton | April 3, 2025

The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

Thor Hanson on the Joys of Slowing Down and Discovering the Unknown In the Familiar

By Thor Hanson | April 3, 2025

What We Can Learn About Death and the Afterlife From the Earliest Humans

What We Can Learn About Death and the Afterlife From the Earliest Humans

Robert Garland Explores the Mourning Rituals and Burial Practices of the Prehistoric and Ancient Past

By Robert Garland | April 3, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

Ed Simon on the Importance of Chasing an Elusive Literary Ideal in an Era of National Decline

By Ed Simon | April 2, 2025

The Beast Inside: What the Myth of the Minotaur Reveals About Human Nature

The Beast Inside: What the Myth of the Minotaur Reveals About Human Nature

Natalie Lawrence Explores Our Enduring Obsession With Monsters, Internal and External

By Natalie Lawrence | April 2, 2025

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On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever

By Steve Oney | March 31, 2025

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

By Ilan Stavans | March 27, 2025

A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking

A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking

Aaron Boehmer on Underground Presses and State Violence

By Aaron Boehmer | March 26, 2025

How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza

How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza

Edna Bonhomme on the Public and Private Battles Waged Across Europe and the United States During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

By Edna Bonhomme | March 24, 2025

A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.

A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.

By Brittany Allen | March 21, 2025

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Clay Risen on the Geopolitical Shifts and Internal Political Climate That Led to the Red Scare

By Clay Risen | March 21, 2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

Stuart Nadler: “The work is everything, and the work is heartbreaking.”

By Stuart Nadler | March 19, 2025

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

Noliwe Rooks on the Ongoing Battle to Desegregate Schools Across America Throughout the 1960s

By Noliwe Rooks | March 19, 2025

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

For Historian Russell Shorto, It Was All About Water

By Russell Shorto | March 18, 2025

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