• History

    Mythology

    Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

    By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
    American History

    Piecing Together the Lives
    of Enslaved Americans

    By Rachel May  November 21, 2019
    Economics

    When a City Goes Bankrupt: A Brief History of Detroit c. 2010

    By Jodie Adams Kirshner  November 21, 2019
    American Diplomacy

    American Diplomacy After Benghazi

    By Paul Richter  November 20, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
    Political Poetry

    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Sociology

    The Debutante Ball in the Global
    Age of Instagram

    By Kristen Richardson  November 20, 2019
    World War II

    Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

    By Serhii Plokhy  November 20, 2019
    Medicine

    Blue Babies, Big Egos, and the Wild World of Early Open Heart Surgery

    By Gabriel Brownstein  November 19, 2019
    Archaeology

    What If We Called It the ‘Flax Age’ Instead of the ‘Iron Age’?

    By Kassia St. Clair  November 19, 2019
    Civil Rights

    The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

    By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe  November 19, 2019
    Archetypes

    On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  November 18, 2019
    Latin

    Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
    Is It Dead

    By Nicola Gardini  November 18, 2019
    Antifascists

    Adriano Olivetti, Industrialist, Typewriter King… Antifascist?

    By Meryle Secrest  November 18, 2019
    Cities

    Between Pastureland and Progress:
    On the Many Lives of an American City

    By Sarah Wagner  November 15, 2019
    Oddities

    The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana

    By John Woolf  November 15, 2019
    New Books Network

    Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

    By New Books Network  November 15, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

    By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
    Language

    Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

    By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
    Politics

    Life Inside Guantánamo:
    An Oral History

    By Peter Jan Honigsberg  November 13, 2019
    American History

    On the Missing History at New York’s Battleship Intrepid Museum

    By James W. Loewen  November 13, 2019
    Art History

    Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

    By John Richardson  November 13, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

    By Nicholas Buccola  November 12, 2019
    Biology

    It Turns Out There’s Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

    By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis  November 12, 2019
    Medieval History

    Spanking, Signing, Reading:
    On the Medieval Use of Hands

    By Jack Hartnell  November 12, 2019
    Abortion Rights

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

    By Jeffrey Rosen  November 11, 2019
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