• History

    Women in Science

    How the Lessons of “Lady Doctors” of the 19th Century Helped Write a Contemporary Novel

    By Ritu Mukerji  October 18, 2023
    Activism

    The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Mass Media Made Mass Protest

    By Vincent Bevins  October 18, 2023
    America

    How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

    By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns  October 16, 2023
    End Times

    Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

    By Aleksander Hemon  October 12, 2023
    Medieval History

    Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

    By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
    Terrorism

    What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

    By Nabila Ramdani  October 6, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How Recycled American Batteries Pollute Communities Around the World

    By James Morton Turner  October 6, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

    By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
    Civil Rights

    The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

    By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 4, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

    By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe’s Obsession With Eugenics

    By Mackenzie Cooley  October 3, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

    By Matthew Connelly  October 2, 2023
    Guns

    “Come and Take It”: How the Aftermath of Sandy Hook Led to More AR-15s Being Sold Than Ever Before

    By Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson  October 2, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

    By Alison Bashford  September 28, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune

    By Ryan Britt  September 27, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    Activism

    How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent Activism

    By Jonathan Eig  September 25, 2023
    Shipwrecks

    All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

    By Fae Myenne Ng  September 21, 2023
    Nature

    How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

    By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
    Feminist History

    We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

    By Gloria Steinem  September 20, 2023
    Jewish History

    On the Rothschilds’ Myth in Literature and Film

    By Mike Rothschild  September 20, 2023
    Astronauts

    First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

    By Loren Grush  September 14, 2023
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