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The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

From Socrates to The Spectator

By Nick Bunker | October 1, 2018

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

"Theirs Would Be a Lonely Struggle"

By Charles Glass | September 28, 2018

When the Food We Ate Was Literally Poison (Even More So Than Now)

When the Food We Ate Was Literally Poison (Even More So Than Now)

On the Bad Old Days of Pre-Regulated Food Production

By Deborah Blum | September 27, 2018

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Why His Writing is a Gift to Today's Activists

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | September 27, 2018

The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

"I finally stopped trying to be part of white society."

By Raymond Arsenault | September 26, 2018

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on Justice (and Its Absence) in the 1930s

By Sherilynn A. Ifill | September 26, 2018

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"We don’t know a damn thing about the surface of the Moon."

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Telling the Unlikely Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

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Heather Morris on the Final Years of Lale Sokolov

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The Tree of Life is a Freaky Tree

By David Quammen | August 29, 2018

On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

Kwame Anthony Appiah Tells the Tale of Amo Afer

By Kwame Anthony Appiah | August 29, 2018

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

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From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression

By James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen | August 29, 2018

On the Cruelty and Tenderness of Isaac Babel

On the Cruelty and Tenderness of Isaac Babel

Jerome Charyn Meets the Daughter of a Master

By Jerome Charyn | August 28, 2018

Have We Ever Had Enough Time to Read?

Have We Ever Had Enough Time to Read?

For Women of the 18th Century, the Answer is a Resounding "No"

By Christina Lupton | August 27, 2018

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