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On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Katie Bennett Measures the Emotional Toll of Writing a Feminist Recovery Story

By Katie Bennett | April 25, 2022

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

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By Caroline Kurtz | April 25, 2022

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

Richard Cohen on the Enduring Influence of One of Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Historians

By Richard Cohen | April 22, 2022

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

Andrew Keen is Pretty Sure No One’s in Charge

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Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

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The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

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Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

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In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

By David de Jong | April 22, 2022

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”

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How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

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Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

Audrey Schulman on the Limits of Scientific Terminology

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On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

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Colleen Hubbard Couldn’t Have Written Her Novel Without the BBC’s Historic Farm Series

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Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Taylor Brown on Looking to the Past (Which Isn't Even Past)

By Taylor Brown | April 21, 2022

On Fictionalizing the Long-Suppressed and Complicated Histories of Holland and Indonesia

On Fictionalizing the Long-Suppressed and Complicated Histories of Holland and Indonesia

Anne Lazurko Explores Colonialism, Revolution, and Family

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On Königsberg, Fortress City and Outpost of Russian Power

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