How Exactly <em>Did</em> Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

Dr. Merijn van de Laar Explores the Sleeping Patterns and Habits of Our Earliest Ancestors

By Merijn van de Laar | June 13, 2025

Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s <em>Iliad</em>

Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender

By Emily Hauser | June 13, 2025

Taking Up Space: Relationships as Sites of Social Transformation

Taking Up Space: Relationships as Sites of Social Transformation

Prentis Hemphill Encourages Us to Reevaluate Our Conceptions of Embodiment, Space and Human Connection

By Prentis Hemphill | June 13, 2025

What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

Matthew Gavin Frank Explores the Dark Side of Our Desire to Explore the Ocean’s Depths

By Matthew Gavin Frank | June 12, 2025

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia

By Martin Padgett | June 12, 2025

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, America's first Black Celebrity Heiress

By A'Lelia Bundles | June 11, 2025

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How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

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Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

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Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

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Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

Caroline Fraser on the Intersection of Environmental Contamination and Violence in the Pacific Northwest

By Caroline Fraser | June 10, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character: <br>The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
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Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll

Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll

Jaha Nailah Avery on the Significance of Addy Walker

By Jaha Nailah Avery | June 9, 2025

Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

Aram Mrjoian Explores the Tension Between Responsibility to History and a Writer’s Creative Vision

By Aram Mrjoian | June 6, 2025

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

By Brando Simeo Starkey | June 5, 2025

Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

David Rooney on John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, Two Fearless Aviators Forgotten by History

By David Rooney | June 5, 2025

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

By Mark Kriegel | June 4, 2025

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