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How American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of “Temperance”

How American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of “Temperance”

Carl Erik Fisher on the "Drunkard" Character and Early Prohibitionist Campaigns

By Carl Erik Fisher | January 25, 2022

On the Spiritual and Historical Significance of “Divine Footprints”

On the Spiritual and Historical Significance of “Divine Footprints”

Francesca Stavrakopoulou Looks Closely at Religious Texts

By Francesca Stavrakopoulou | January 25, 2022

Read Arthur Miller’s steamy love letter to Marilyn Monroe.

Read Arthur Miller’s steamy love letter to Marilyn Monroe.

By Walker Caplan | January 24, 2022

How <em>Paris is Burning</em> Left an Indelible Mark on Pop Culture

How Paris is Burning Left an Indelible Mark on Pop Culture

Ricky Tucker on the Magic of Queer Blackness

By Ricky Tucker | January 24, 2022

As a kid, George Orwell practiced black magic on a bully—and it worked.

As a kid, George Orwell practiced black magic on a bully—and it worked.

By Walker Caplan | January 21, 2022

The Complicated History of the <em>Black Joke</em>, the Ship That Battled the Slave Trade

The Complicated History of the Black Joke, the Ship That Battled the Slave Trade

A.E. Rooks on the Ongoing Repercussions of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By A.E. Rooks | January 21, 2022

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Can Generation Z Save America? (And Should They Have To?)

By John Della Volpe | January 20, 2022

Zora Neale Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print

By Zora Neale Hurston | January 20, 2022

“Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

“Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

Julie Dobrow Investigates the Political Implications of Interracial Marriage in 19th-Century America

By Julie Dobrow | January 20, 2022

The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

Lea Ypi on Growing Up Within an Isolated Country

By Lea Ypi | January 20, 2022

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

And Why Some Mysteries Have to Stay That Way

By Janice P. Nimura | January 19, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

By Jonny Diamond | January 18, 2022

How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World

How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World

Michael Brooks on the Surprising Sophistication of “Finger-Counting”

By Michael Brooks | January 18, 2022

The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

A Report from the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Jim Moske | January 18, 2022

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

"In putting race and aesthetics in conversation with one another, Locke forever changed our understanding of both.”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart | January 18, 2022

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