How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Ilan Stavans | September 29, 2025

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity

By Martha A. Sandweiss | September 29, 2025

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

By Brittany Allen | September 26, 2025

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

From Sophia Rosenfeld’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “The Age of Choice”

By Sophia Rosenfeld | September 26, 2025

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

From Lyndal Roper's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Summer of Fire and Blood”

By Lyndal Roper | September 25, 2025

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Benjamin Nathans's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause”

By Benjamin Nathans | September 24, 2025

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The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

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Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery

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The Power of the Podcast Collaborators: On the State Cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel

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“If all of your fantasies are imagined confrontations, you are not so secretly rehearsing for the chance to fight and punish your enemies.”

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No North, No South: The Tragically Unfulfilled Promise of Korea’s Asian Spring

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From Kornel Chang’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “A Fractured Liberation”

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How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain

How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain

Jonathan Healey on the Political Turmoil That Marred the Year of 1642

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How Feminists Fought to Formally Recognize Women’s Domestic Labor

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From Emily Callaci's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Wages for Housework”

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How the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Survived the Death Camps

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