• History

    Indigenous Peoples

    Why We Need to Rethink Afro-Indigenous History in the United States

    By Kyle T. Mays  November 11, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On Class Conflict and Public School Boys

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Who will buy the extremely rare concept art book for Jorodowsky’s unproduced Dune?

    By Walker Caplan  November 10, 2021
    Philosophy

    On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

    By Robert Meagher  November 10, 2021
    Education

    How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

    By Robert A. Gross  November 10, 2021
    Libraries

    Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was… Kind of a Dump

    By Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen  November 10, 2021
    War

    Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

    By Michael Ignatieff  November 10, 2021
    Keen On

    Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the History of Libraries

    By Keen On  November 10, 2021
    Keen On

    Ruben Gallego on the Fate of Lima Company During and After Iraq

    By Keen On  November 10, 2021
    Ancient History

    How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

    By Dan Jones  November 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Tony Kushner perform William Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech.

    By Walker Caplan  November 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Robert Frost’s first published poem, written when he was 18.

    By Walker Caplan  November 8, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Diane Wilson on Being a Good Relative to the Land

    By Emergence Magazine  November 8, 2021
    Correspondence

    “I Am Disgusted with Things as They Are.” Ralph Ellison on the Injustice and Poverty of 1937 New York

    By Shaun Usher  November 5, 2021
    On Racism

    What Created the American Crisis of Subminimum Pay?

    By Saru Jayaraman  November 5, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Patrick Dean on the Daring First Ascent of Denali

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 5, 2021
    Mail

    How Cheap Postal Rates for Books and Nonprofits Contributed to American Democracy

    By Christopher W. Shaw  November 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

    By Keen On  November 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Ben Wilson on the Invention of the City

    By Keen On  November 5, 2021
    Artists

    On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

    By Meghan Forbes  November 4, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ha Jin on the Importance of Writing Lasting Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 4, 2021
    The Holocaust

    “Was It I Who Came Back Home?” On the Return of Catherine Dior and Other Survivors of Ravensbrück

    By Justine Picardie  November 4, 2021
    European History

    The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

    By Amy Licence  November 4, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Jessica Nordell on What We Don’t Realize About Unconscious Bias

    By Just the Right Book   November 4, 2021
    The Hub

    Walt Whitman’s letter to a female admirer is the nicest romantic rejection in history.

    By Walker Caplan  November 3, 2021
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