• History

    The Writing Life

    Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

    Robert P. Baird on His Transformative Academic and Literary Journey From Engineer to Writer

     
    By Robert P. Baird  June 16, 2025
    Patriarchy

    Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

    By Diana Arterian  June 16, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

    By Merijn van de Laar  June 13, 2025
    Overlooked Women

    Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

    By Emily Hauser  June 13, 2025
    Relationships

    Taking Up Space: Relationships as Sites of Social Transformation

    By Prentis Hemphill  June 13, 2025
    The Ocean

    What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  June 12, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Queer History

    Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

    By Martin Padgett  June 12, 2025
    Black History

    To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

    By A'Lelia Bundles  June 11, 2025
    American History

    How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

    By Zaakir Tameez  June 11, 2025
    Medieval History

    How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture

    Bernd Roeck on the Role of Monasteries in Laying the Intellectual Groundwork for the Renaissance

    By Bernd Roeck  June 16, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

    By Nan Z. Da  June 10, 2025
    True Crime

    Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

    By Caroline Fraser  June 10, 2025
    On Race

    Bad Curls, Bad Character:
    The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

    By Sarah Gold McBride  June 9, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll

    Jaha Nailah Avery on the Significance of Addy Walker

    By Jaha Nailah Avery  June 9, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

    By Aram Mrjoian  June 6, 2025
    American Politics

    States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

    By Brando Simeo Starkey  June 5, 2025
    Aviation

    Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

    By David Rooney  June 5, 2025
    Sports

    Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

    Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

    By Maggie Stiefvater  June 4, 2025
    Queer History

    How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

    By Claire Lynch  June 3, 2025
    American Politics

    From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

    By Deborah Baker  June 3, 2025
    Sports History

    Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine’s Olympic Debut

    Brendan O’Meara on the Star Runner's Performance at the 1972 Summer Games

    By Brendan O’Meara  June 2, 2025
    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    Violence

    Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

    By Askold Melnyczuk  May 29, 2025
    Black History

    Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

    By Arianne Edmonds  June 11, 2025
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