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How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

How America’s River Wanderers Built a Life on the Water

Rinker Buck Explores the Flatboating Era

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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

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

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How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

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What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

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

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Oscar Hokeah’s Chronicle of Kiowa and Cherokee Life

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

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

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