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History
What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country
Emilee Hackney Considers Family History Alongside the Rise and Fall of the Coal Industry
By
Emilee Hackney
| July 29, 2026
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
Inside the 2016 Election, From Bernie Sanders’s Chief Strategist
By
Tad Devine
| July 28, 2026
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t
H. Keith Melton and Nigel West on Trotsky and Kahlo‘s Simmering Affair Amidst Political Turmoil
By
H. Keith Melton and Nigel West
| July 28, 2026
The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin
Colin Asher Looks Back on the Country Star's Iconic Performance at California's Most Infamous Jail
By
Colin Asher
| July 27, 2026
This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in
The Atlantic Monthly
”It staggered me to think that perhaps I had always missed what made poetry poetry.”
By
Literary Hub
| July 27, 2026
Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now
“The true fight is for self-determination and restitution; anything less is unacceptable.”
By
Edna Bonhomme
| July 27, 2026
Best Reviewed
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On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s
No Name
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| July 24, 2026
On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity
By
Sander L. Gilman
| July 24, 2026
Why Americans can’t seem to quit
Little House on the Prairie.
By
Brittany Allen
| July 23, 2026
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”
By
Rebecca Solnit
| July 23, 2026
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
Jim Downs Considers the Important Work of Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepore, Kevin Kruse, and More
By
Jim Downs
| July 23, 2026
For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment
Kōhei Saitō on the Myth of Free Market Solutions to Climate Change
By
Kohei Saito
| July 23, 2026
God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s
A Conversation With Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell
By
Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell
| July 23, 2026
How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
Jesse Waggoner on the Harlem Renaissance's Contributions to Modern Disability Rights
By
Jesse Waggoner
| July 22, 2026
How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism
Emily Eakin Explores New Developments in French Thought After World War II
By
Emily Eakin
| July 21, 2026
This Week in Literary History: O. Henry is Released from Prison
“If he had simply gone back to Austin when he was summoned to stand trial, he would have been acquitted.”
By
Literary Hub
| July 20, 2026
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"Confident and unsettling I m forced to be coy because there s a mystery at…"