• History

    Literary History

    On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

    By Katie Bennett  April 25, 2022
    Colonialism

    Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

    By Caroline Kurtz  April 25, 2022
    Ancient Rome

    How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

    By Richard Cohen  April 22, 2022
    The Royal Family

    How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

    By Robert Leleux  April 22, 2022
    Keen On

    When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

    By Andrew Keen  April 22, 2022
    Open Source

    Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

    By Open Source  April 22, 2022
    Black History

    The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

    By Kristen Green  April 22, 2022
    Film History

    Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

    By Paul Fischer  April 22, 2022
    Fascism

    In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

    By David de Jong  April 22, 2022
    Nationalism

    Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

    By Arundhati Roy  April 21, 2022
    Literary History

    How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

    By Dominic Green  April 21, 2022
    Language

    Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

    By Audrey Schulman  April 21, 2022
    Reality TV

    On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

    By Colleen Hubbard  April 21, 2022
    Literary History

    Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

    By Taylor Brown  April 21, 2022
    Colonialism

    On Fictionalizing the Long-Suppressed and Complicated Histories of Holland and Indonesia

    By Anne Lazurko  April 21, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On Königsberg, Fortress City and Outpost of Russian Power

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   April 21, 2022
    Labor

    How Airline Stewardesses Fought Their Industry’s Toxic Patriarchal Norms

    By Nell McShane Wulfhart  April 20, 2022
    On Racism

    Reckoning with the History of Medical Racism: A Reading List

    By Dolen Perkins-Valdez  April 20, 2022
    Chinese History

    The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

    By Vanessa Hua  April 20, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the Evil Legacy of Nazi Billionaires Remains Very Much Alive in Germany Today

    By Keen On  April 20, 2022
    Shakespeare

    How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

    By Kathryn Harkup  April 19, 2022
    Cookbooks

    An Inside Look at Judith Jones’ First Notes for Julia Child

    By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz  April 19, 2022
    Science

    On the Romance and Wonder of Victorian Science

    By Nicole Yunger Halpern  April 18, 2022
    Keen On

    The Chilling Similarities Between Bush’s Invasion of Iraq and Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

    By Keen On  April 18, 2022
    Central European History

    Is Croatia Going the Reactionary Route of Poland and Hungary?

    By Robert D. Kaplan  April 15, 2022
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