Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

Kathryn Nuernberger Considers Society's Failure to Protect Victims, Then and Now

By Kathryn Nuernberger | February 19, 2021

A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

A Brief Literary History of Gay and Lesbian Bars

Jeremy Atherton Lin on Finding Sites of Literary Sociability

By Jeremy Atherton Lin | February 19, 2021

How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

Michelle D. Commander Unearths the Buried Lives of Her Formerly Enslaved Ancestors

By Michelle D. Commander | February 19, 2021

A Brief History of Women’s Liberation Movements in America

A Brief History of Women’s Liberation Movements in America

Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore Map Genealogies 
of Feminist Activism

By Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore | February 19, 2021

On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

Daniel Elkind Rereads James Chapman’s TV-War Novel
GLASS (pray the electrons back to sand)

By Daniel Elkind | February 18, 2021

Bloody Talismans: How an American Journalist Endured an al Qaeda Prison

Bloody Talismans: How an American Journalist Endured an al Qaeda Prison

Theo Padnos on Surviving Captivity, Torture, and Terror in Syria

By Theo Padnos | February 17, 2021

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Have Robots... Always Been With Us?

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | February 17, 2021

How the Schomburg Center Became a Cultural Beacon and Harlem's Literary Sanctuary

By Kevin Young | February 17, 2021

On the Our Town Spin-Off That Served as WWII Spirit Building

By Howard Sherman | February 17, 2021

Lessons in Self-Invention and Reinvention from <br>Theodore Roosevelt

Lessons in Self-Invention and Reinvention from
Theodore Roosevelt

Michael Patrick F. Smith Finds Himself a President’s Story

By Michael Patrick F. Smith | February 17, 2021

To Catch a Killer: Uncovering the Massacre of a Jewish Family in<br> Nazi Europe

To Catch a Killer: Uncovering the Massacre of a Jewish Family in
Nazi Europe

Wendy Lower's Ten-Year Hunt to Identify the Victims and Murderers in a Horrific Holocaust Photograph

By Wendy Lower | February 16, 2021

Does Regency-Era Opium Use Explain Anne de Bourgh of <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>?

Does Regency-Era Opium Use Explain Anne de Bourgh of Pride and Prejudice?

Molly Greeley in Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | February 16, 2021

The Hidden Narrative in <em>Middlemarch</em> That 2021 Readers Will Spot

The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

Diana Rose Newby on George Eliot's Approach to Contagion

By Diana Rose Newby | February 12, 2021

I Wanted to Understand the Breathtaking Violence of American Policing, <br>So I Became a Cop

I Wanted to Understand the Breathtaking Violence of American Policing,
So I Became a Cop

Rosa Brooks Wrestles with the Puzzle of State-Sanctioned Violence

By Rosa Brooks | February 12, 2021

This month, Frederick Douglass’s papers will be made available to the public.

This month, Frederick Douglass’s papers will be made available to the public.

By Walker Caplan | February 11, 2021

Listen to the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell.

Listen to the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell.

By Walker Caplan | February 11, 2021

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