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History

War

Lessons From the Qur’an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

By Alireza Doostdar  March 13, 2020
On Race

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

By Jacob Dorman  March 12, 2020
Iran

Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

By Terence Ward  March 12, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

By Yan Lianke  March 11, 2020
Forgeries

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

By Nathan Rabb  March 11, 2020
Neuroscience

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

By Will Storr  March 11, 2020
Big Pharma

On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

By Gerald Posner  March 11, 2020
Prohibition

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon ‘Free Lunch.’

By Ben Katchor  March 10, 2020
Literary Tourism

Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who
Hated It?

By Carolina Marques de Mesquita  March 9, 2020
Medicine

Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

By David Nott  March 6, 2020
Politics

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

By Robin D.G. Kelley  March 6, 2020
Science

What’s the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

By David Schneider  March 5, 2020
Activism

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

By Adam Hochschild  March 5, 2020
The Hub

Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

By Olivia Rutigliano  March 4, 2020
Libraries

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

By Alana Mohamed  March 4, 2020
Style

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

By Dylan Byron  March 3, 2020
War

Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

By Tim Bakken  March 2, 2020
News and Culture

When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

By Matt Kapp  February 28, 2020
On Race

The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

By Mikki Kendall  February 27, 2020
Journalism

When America’s Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon

By Stephanie Gorton  February 27, 2020
Literary History

A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
WWII

Erik Larson on Writing Wartime Life During the London Blitz

By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
Folklore

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
Poets

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

By Emily Van Duyne  February 24, 2020
Poets

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
Spanish Civil War

By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
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