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What the Ancient Greeks <em>Thought</em> They Understood About Blood

What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

Dr. Dhun Sethna on Homer, Hippocrates, and the Vascular System

By Dr. Dhun Sethna | June 7, 2022

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Levi Vonk on All God's Dangers and the Power of Collaborative Oral History

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

“To write was, and still is, in some sense, to tattoo, to ink script upon skin.”

By Lars Horn | June 6, 2022

Making Meat Jun, Facing History: Flattening Korean Tradition in Hawaiʻi

Making Meat Jun, Facing History: Flattening Korean Tradition in Hawaiʻi

Joseph Han on the Militarized History Behind a Favorite Food

By Joseph Han | June 6, 2022

Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

A Conversation Between Mark Alan Stamaty, David Hajdu, and John Carey

By Literary Hub | June 6, 2022

Why Walt Whitman Wrote <em>Leaves of Grass</em>

Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

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How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist

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On the Dangers of Greatness: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich

By José Vergara | June 3, 2022

How Hacks Captures the Disconnect Between Two Generations of Feminism

By Alison B. Hart | June 3, 2022

What an Archive of Testimonials Tells Us About Abortion Before <em>Roe</em>

What an Archive of Testimonials Tells Us About Abortion Before Roe

Rosa Campbell on the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws

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How 19th-Century Gun-Makers Helped Preserve the Union

How 19th-Century Gun-Makers Helped Preserve the Union

John Bainbridge, Jr. on the Weapons That Won the Civil War

By John Bainbridge, Jr. | June 3, 2022

Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

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How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

By Philip Dray | June 2, 2022

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

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Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

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