How the Bubonic Plague <em>Almost</em> Came to America

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More!

By David K. Randall | May 9, 2019

We Have Always Loved<br> Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley Offers a Brief History of Political Listicles

By Douglas Brinkley | May 8, 2019

On the Unsung Lives<br> of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

When Two Railroads—and the Migrant Workers Who Built Them—Met

By Gordon H. Chang | May 8, 2019

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

Jacques Schiffrin and the Creation of Pléiade Editions

By Amos Reichman | May 7, 2019

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with <br>the British Monarchy?)

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

From Shakespeare to Austen, the Hagiographic to the Contemptuous

By Robert Morrison | May 6, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer <br>Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

"Without experience... We can possess no knowledge of the world."

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

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Like Twitter But Cold: On the Literary Culture of Arctic Expeditions

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Can You Can Imagine Taking a Printing Press to the North Pole?

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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't As Dark<br> As We Thought

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How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US

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Was Shakespeare Agnostic About<br> the Afterlife?

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The Real Story Behind the Creation <br>of the Atomic Bomb

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