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Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

Daniel Immerwahr on the Erasure of American "Territories" from US History

By Daniel Immerwahr | February 20, 2019

Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

It Took Margaret Verble Twenty Years to Write Her Novel and It Was Worth It

By Margaret Verble | February 19, 2019

What Eight Missing Manuscript Pages Can Tell Us About a 20th-Century Genocide

What Eight Missing Manuscript Pages Can Tell Us About a 20th-Century Genocide

Unraveling the Provenance of Armenia's Zeytun Gospels

By Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh | February 15, 2019

What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

On the Intellectual Genealogy of the United States

By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | February 14, 2019

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Does the History of Western Poetry Begin with Sheep?

By Michael Ursell | February 13, 2019

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Revelry, Mayhem, and Illicit Movie Theaters, Under the City of Light

By Will Hunt | February 12, 2019

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How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

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The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

By Stephen Koch | January 31, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A Hundred Years at the Edge of Empire

By Stephen Benz | January 30, 2019

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

"Let ’em simmer till the greens are the texture you want."

By Ntozake Shange | January 29, 2019

Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe's Contemporary Dystopia

Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe's Contemporary Dystopia

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma on Mining Hard Family Histories in the Wake of Genocide

By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma | January 29, 2019

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

Your First Clue: Her Nickname Was "the Goat"

By Emily Temple | January 25, 2019

My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

"These were terrible hours, when we waited for our names to be called."

By Mark Mayer | January 25, 2019

A Brief Literary History of Davos

A Brief Literary History of Davos

Where Writer's Block is Cured, if Not Global Misfortune

By Isabelle Mayault | January 24, 2019

In Aristotle's Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

In Aristotle's Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

On the Virtues of "Civic Friendship"

By Edith Hall | January 23, 2019

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