Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”

By Christina Lamb | August 9, 2022

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland

Bernadette Jiwa on Her Grandmother’s Death and the Need to Keep History Close

By Bernadette Jiwa | August 9, 2022

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

How Trump’s top general worried the Hitler-curious president was seeking “a Reichstag moment.”

By Jonny Diamond | August 8, 2022

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

By Rinker Buck | August 8, 2022

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

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Emma Seckel on the Weightiness of History and the Vastness of Landscape

By Emma Seckel | August 3, 2022

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?

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?

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From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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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

By Oscar Hokeah | July 28, 2022

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