My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

David J. Dennis Jr. on a Childhood Shaped By the Movement

By David Dennis Jr. | May 19, 2022

WATCH: Gregory D. Smithers on Amplifying the History and Voices of Indigenous Resistance

WATCH: Gregory D. Smithers on Amplifying the History and Voices of Indigenous Resistance

In Conversation with Alan Gallay at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 19, 2022

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

How Greenwich Village Bohemians Found Their Way to Provincetown

John Taylor Williams on Two Radical Communities

By John Taylor Williams | May 18, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Rachel Feltman Looks Into the Theories Behind Our (Very Common) Fixation on Feet

By Rachel Feltman | May 18, 2022

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Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

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A Mysterious Canoe, a Flip Phone, and a Lot of Unanswered Questions

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Ben McGrath on Tells the Tale of an American Odyssey

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Are We At the End of (the) History (of Liberalism)?

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Francis Fukuyama in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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Beverly Gologorsky on the Turmoil of the Late 1960s

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From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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Baboon Teeth, Urine Rinses... and More Horrors of Early Dentistry

Baboon Teeth, Urine Rinses... and More Horrors of Early Dentistry

Paul Craddock on the Early Literature of Tooth Transplants

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2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

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Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

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Nobody’s in Charge: Life in the Un-Orwellian Future

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Andrew Keen on the Chaos of Contemporary Power

By Andrew Keen | May 13, 2022

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