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History

Feminism

When Your Book Finds a New Voice, 50 Years Later

By Alix Kates Shulman  October 8, 2019
American History

The Midcentury Battle to Save America’s Cities from Crisis

By Lizabeth Cohen  October 8, 2019
Fascism

On the Far Right Past of Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of Ikea

By Elisabeth Åsbrink  October 7, 2019
Immigration

On the Universal Urgency of Immigrant Literature

By Christopher Castellani  October 7, 2019
Remembering

Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

By Julia Alvarez  October 4, 2019
Anger

From the Unabomber to the Incels: Angry Young Men on Campus

By Eileen Pollack  October 4, 2019
Origin Stories

To the Manor Born: On the Rise of Fred C. Trump, Homebuilder

By Thomas J. Campanella  October 3, 2019
The Labor Movement

On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

By Stephen Harrigan  October 2, 2019
Probability

Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

By Ian Stewart  October 2, 2019
What to Read

12 Books You Should Read
This October

By Literary Hub  October 2, 2019
Economics

Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
Theater

Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
European History

How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  September 30, 2019
Soccer

How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

By Jonathan Wilson  September 27, 2019
African Literature

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
Catholicism

How a Saint Gets Made

By Sonja Livingston  September 26, 2019
Etymologies

How the Word ‘Ghetto’ Traveled from Europe to America

By Daniel B. Schwartz  September 26, 2019
Economics

Friedrich Hayek: Not Exactly the Libertarian Darling He’s Claimed As

By James Bernard Murphy  September 25, 2019
News and Culture

The Jazz Age Heiress Who Witnessed WWII Up Close

By Peter Finn  September 24, 2019
Inspiration

Writing About the Forgotten Black Women of the Italo-Ethiopian War

By Maaza Mengiste  September 24, 2019
New in Nonfiction

For Millennials, Self-Help is More About ‘We’ Than ‘Me’

By Kathryn Watson  September 23, 2019
American History

The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

By T. H. Breen  September 23, 2019
US Politics

The Long Legacy of America’s Militarist, Racist Demagoguery

By Greg Grandin  September 20, 2019
Cities

Walking with the Ghosts of Black
Los Angeles

By Ismail Muhammad  September 20, 2019
Hysteria

In Search of Hysteria: The Man Who Thought He Could Define Madness

By Allan H. Ropper and Brian Burrell  September 20, 2019
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