• History

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    How to Arrange an 1890s-Style Shotgun Wedding

    By Patricia Miller  November 15, 2018
    Excerpts

    How America Remembers Emmett Till

    By Elliott Gorn  November 15, 2018
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    On the Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2018
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    Fragments of John McPhee: On Cary Grant, Ping-Pong, and Earthquakes

    By John McPhee  November 13, 2018
    Biography

    Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

    By Miranda Seymour  November 12, 2018
    Archives

    See Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray

    By Literary Hub  November 9, 2018
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    What a Woman Must Do to Become King

    By Kara Cooney  November 8, 2018
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    The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

    By Eric Karpeles  November 7, 2018
    Biography

    How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

    By David and Jeanne Heidler  November 6, 2018
    Excerpts

    English Tourists in Italy Have Been Complaining for 300 Years

    By Ferdinand Addis  November 6, 2018
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    How Horror Changed After WWI

    By W. Scott Poole  October 31, 2018
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    America, Waging Unpopular Wars Right from the Start!

    By Michael Beschloss  October 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Very Scary Rise of the First Literary Vampire

    By Nick Groom  October 25, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

    By Kembrew McLeod  October 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Anxiety of the Pilot Upon Attempting to Land a Plane

    By María Sonia Cristoff  October 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    Worst Pope of All Time?

    By Simon Sebag Montefiore  October 17, 2018
    Feature

    Uwe Johnson: A Chapter a Day for a Year

    By Uwe Johnson  October 9, 2018
    Excerpts

    Meet the Beloved Pet Ravens of Charles Dickens

    By Christopher Skaife  October 2, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

    By Nick Bunker  October 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

    By Charles Glass  September 28, 2018
    Excerpts

    When the Food We Ate Was Literally Poison (Even More So Than Now)

    By Deborah Blum  September 27, 2018
    Essay

    We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

    By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor  September 27, 2018
    Biography

    The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

    By Raymond Arsenault  September 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

    By Sherilynn A. Ifill  September 26, 2018
    Essay

    The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been…

    By Leonid Yuzefovich  September 20, 2018
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