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“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority

“Critiques of late-stage capitalism don’t address how people of color get pitted against each other.”

By Vanessa Hua | August 8, 2022

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

Andrew Keen on Why We Remain Prisoners of History

By Andrew Keen | August 5, 2022

Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Francesca Stanfill on the Remarkable Story of Rebel Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | August 5, 2022

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

Dan Fesperman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2022

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

By Mark Braude | August 4, 2022

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

18th-Century Vienna Through the Eyes of a Woman Traveler

Angus Robertson on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Experiences in the Heart of the Holy Roman Empire

By Angus Robertson | August 4, 2022

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Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

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Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

By Keen On | August 2, 2022

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

Daisy Hildyard on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 1, 2022

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 1, 2022

Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

Oscar Hokeah’s Chronicle of Kiowa and Cherokee Life

By Oscar Hokeah | July 28, 2022

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Eve Fairbanks Recommends Claudia Rankine, Svetlana Alexeivich, and More

By Eve Fairbanks | July 28, 2022

What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | July 28, 2022

Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | July 28, 2022

“She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

“She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

Kathy Kleiman on Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, and the Search for Women in STEM During WWII

By Kathy Kleiman | July 27, 2022

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