• History

    Prehistory

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

    Dr. Merijn van de Laar Explores the Sleeping Patterns and Habits of Our Earliest Ancestors

     
    By Merijn van de Laar  June 12, 2025
    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
    Black History

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

    By Arianne Edmonds  June 11, 2025
    Totalitarianism

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

    By Nan Z. Da  June 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    By Jaha Nailah Avery  June 9, 2025
    The Ocean

    What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

    Matthew Gavin Frank Explores the Dark Side of Our Desire to Explore the Ocean’s Depths

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  June 12, 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)

    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Historical Fiction

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

    Maggie Stiefvater: “Here is another way luxury differs from wealth. Wealth does what you tell it to. Luxury surprises you.”

    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

    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
    Authoritarianism

    How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

    By Maria Hummel  May 28, 2025
    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    Culinary History

    Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

    Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons Track the Evolution of America's Fixation

    By Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons  May 21, 2025
    Cults

    A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

    By Allison Buccola  May 20, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

    By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

    By Aram Mrjoian  June 6, 2025
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