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The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019

The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019

Charles Kaiser Introduces a New Edition of The Gay Metropolis

By Charles Kaiser | June 5, 2019

The Poetic Half-Life of One Family's Nuclear History

The Poetic Half-Life of One Family's Nuclear History

Tyler Mills on Her Grandfather's Role in the Bombing of Nagasaki

By Tyler Mills | June 5, 2019

Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

On the Rise and Fall of Mexico's Narco Empire

By Dan Werb | June 5, 2019

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."

By Jill Lepore | June 4, 2019

On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

On the Role of Black Women in the Struggle for Suffrage

Kate Clarke Lemay Curates 'Portraits of Persistence' at the National Portrait Gallery

By Kate Lemay | June 4, 2019

When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

When Mystics and Mediums Convinced Scientists the Paranormal Was Normal

Matt Tompkins on People Who Talk to Dead People (and the People Who Study Them)

By Matt Tompkins | May 30, 2019

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On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York's Skyline

By Anthony Alofsin | May 29, 2019

My Decade-Long Fascination with the Tale of Monica Lewinsky

By Mandy Berman | May 29, 2019

The most recent "crisis in the humanities" is really just a case of crossed wires.

By Aaron Robertson | May 24, 2019

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

In Celebration of a Writer, Bill-Payer, and Bordello Owner

By Jaime Fuller | May 24, 2019

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

How the Study of Physics Came to a Halt During the Great War

By Matthew Stanley | May 22, 2019

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Revisits Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's
The Making of a Southerner

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall | May 22, 2019

The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week...

The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week...

By Aaron Robertson | May 20, 2019

In India, One Publisher's High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

In India, One Publisher's High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

Changing the Conversation One Book at a Time

By Liesl Schwabe | May 20, 2019

L. Frank Baum's first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

L. Frank Baum's first book was a manual for breeding fancy chickens.

It didn't do quite as well as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By Emily Temple | May 17, 2019

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

From Rooming Houses to the YMCA

By George Chauncey | May 17, 2019

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