History

A Great Musical Migration: How the Blues Headed North

On 1920s Broadway, Shuffle Along, and Northern Blues

 
By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff  June 12, 2017
History

The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

By Tobias Carroll  June 9, 2017
History

From Penelope to Pussyhats, The Ancient Origins of Feminist Craftivism

By Stephanie McCarter  June 7, 2017
History

Otis Redding Records an All-Time Great Song a Month Before His Death

By Jonathan Gould  May 31, 2017
History

The Canonization of Dylan Thomas

By Bernard Schwartz  May 15, 2017
History

One American’s 44-Year Battle to Rebuild Shakespeare’s Theater

By Dominic Dromgoole  April 21, 2017
History

20 Rare Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

By Emily Temple  April 5, 2017
History

How to Write About a Massacre

By Harriet Scott Chessman  March 28, 2017
History

Behind One of the Most Famous Faces in Art

By Laurie Lico Albanese  February 24, 2017
History

Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man

By Nathan Scott McNamara  February 9, 2017
History

A Real-Life Fitzgerald Hero, Too True for the Jazz Age

By Beatriz Williams  January 26, 2017
History

A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

By David Welky  December 20, 2016
Feature

The World’s Oldest Library: Founded by a Woman, Restored By a Woman

By Lorraine Boissoneault  November 28, 2016
Feature

A Literary Look at the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series

By Emily Temple  November 3, 2016
Feature

For Better or Worse, How Mississippi Remembers Emmett Till

By Literary Hub  November 2, 2016
Excerpts

The Rise of the Cities of the Dead

By Colin Dickey  October 31, 2016
Excerpts

By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

By Garnette Cadogan  October 12, 2016
Essay

Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

By P.N. Singer  September 30, 2016
Feature

Jeanette Winterson on Paris’s Great Bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

By Lit Hub Photography  September 20, 2016
Criticism

Hitler’s Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

By Peter Ho Davies  September 7, 2016
Biography

The Forgotten History of Florence’s Mixed-Race Medici

By Catherine Fletcher  September 2, 2016
Essay

Men of Power and Their Obsession with Winston Churchill

By Anthony Audi  August 25, 2016
History

On the Barbizon Hotel, and the Women Writers Who Lived There

By Nathan Smith  August 23, 2016
Essay

The Secret Love of Edith Wharton’s Life

By Yvonne Georgina Puig  August 15, 2016
Essay

Reading the Partition of India

By Anjali Enjeti  August 15, 2016
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