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Who Really Invented the Selfie?

Who Really Invented the Selfie?

Matt Colquhoun on Narcissism, Photography History, and Britney Spears and Paris Hilton's Paradigm-Shifting Picture

By Matt Colquhoun | August 14, 2023

"Woman, Jew, Intellectual:" How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

Wolfram Eilenberger on the Social Construction of the Self Under Totalitarianism

By Wolfram Eilenberger | August 10, 2023

6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction

6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction

Elizabeth Fremantle Rescues Misfits and Disruptors from the Wastebin of History

By Elizabeth Fremantle | August 10, 2023

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

Joshua Glenn Chronicles the Development of Sci-Fi in the Early 20th Century

By Joshua Glenn | August 7, 2023

How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

Janet Wallach on the Making of Socialite and Spy Marguerite Harrison

By Janet Wallach | August 7, 2023

Luke Nichter on The Year That Broke Politics: 1968

Luke Nichter on The Year That Broke Politics: 1968

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 7, 2023

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A Sunset Forever Spoiled: Remembering the Beirut Port Explosion, Three Years Later

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How A Group of High-Flying Women Helped Win World War II

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It Conveyed <em>Them</em>: When The Beatles Recorded

It Conveyed Them: When The Beatles Recorded "Twist and Shout"

David Hepworth on the Moment When the Band Found Its Voice at Abbey Road

By David Hepworth | August 2, 2023

"A Small, Vengeful Man:" How Vladimir Putin Began His Iron-Fisted Reign

Masha Gessen Chronicles the Early Days of Putinism in Russia

By Masha Gessen | July 28, 2023

"One of the Greatest in United States History": On the Friendship Between Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

Laurence Jurdem Explores the Relationship Between Two True Believers in American Exceptionalism

By Laurence Jurdem | July 28, 2023

Tom Holm on Ira Hayes and the Price of Heroism

Tom Holm on Ira Hayes and the Price of Heroism

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 28, 2023

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

Christopher Cameron on the Complex Relationship Between Black Americans and the Black Church

By Christopher Cameron | July 27, 2023

On the Historical and Contemporary Significance of <em>Oppenheimer</em>

On the Historical and Contemporary Significance of Oppenheimer

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 27, 2023

A Transformative Moment in the History of Fishing: On Catching the Largest Tuna Ever Recorded

A Transformative Moment in the History of Fishing: On Catching the Largest Tuna Ever Recorded

Karen Pinchin on Nova Scotia in the 1930s and the Men Who Made History

By Karen Pinchin | July 25, 2023

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