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From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

David Hajdu Explores the Creative and Technical Evolution of a Versatile Electric Instrument

By David Hajdu | February 14, 2025

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

Erling Kagge on the Early Years of Polar Exploration and the Timeless Phenomenon of Human Hubris

By Erling Kagge | February 13, 2025

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Nicki Kattoura on Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims”

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2025

Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia

Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia

David Levering Lewis on the Eternal Questions of Race and Power Surrounding the American National Narrative

By David Levering Lewis | February 12, 2025

The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

Eve L. Ewing on the Structural Factors Behind Economic and Educational Inequality in America

By Eve L. Ewing | February 12, 2025

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How the Advent of Modernity Shifted Our Perception of Mass Violence

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The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

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The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris

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“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

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The Iconic French-American Performer Recounts Her First Days in the City of Lights

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How librarians saved the day in World War II.

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Move over, Moneypenny. The first spies were nerds.

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For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

“This is the end of the world that never ends.”

By Andreas Malm | February 6, 2025

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