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After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church

After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church

And White Suffragists Often Stood in the Way

By Martha S. Jones | September 10, 2020

In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers

In the 1990s, Feminism Found a New Ally: Computers

Lisa Levenstein Revisits the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing

By Lisa Levenstein | July 30, 2020

Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

Frank Tallis on the Anthropological View of Storytelling

By Frank Tallis | July 22, 2020

The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

Peniel Joseph on the Case of Ronald Stokes in 1960s LA

By Peniel E. Joseph | June 23, 2020

A Good Journalist Understands That Fascism Can Happen Anywhere, Anytime

A Good Journalist Understands That Fascism Can Happen Anywhere, Anytime

On the 1930s Antifascist Writing of Dorothy Thompson

By Nancy Cott | April 30, 2020

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Wearing Clothes?">

Wearing Clothes?">What's the Point of
Wearing Clothes?

Shahidha Bari on the Pleasures and Politics of What We Wear

By Shahidha Bari | April 24, 2020

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The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

By Mo Moulton | November 14, 2019

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

Brendan Simms on Hitler's Stay in Prison, and the Scapegoating of Modernity

By Brendan Simms | November 5, 2019

Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

On Our Obsession with Probability

By Ian Stewart | October 2, 2019

The Problem of Germany's Post-War Internal Refugees

The Problem of Germany's Post-War Internal Refugees

On the So-Called "Expellees" of Eastern Europe

By Peter Gatrell | September 20, 2019

Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

Who Has Time to Read? And Where? And on What?

Leah Price Offers a Brief History of the "Traveling" Book

By Leah Price | September 5, 2019

Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

Jonathan A. Rodden on the Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

By Jonathan A. Rodden | June 6, 2019

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

Moving Through New York's Early 20th-Century Gay Spaces

From Rooming Houses to the YMCA

By George Chauncey | May 17, 2019

The Scientists' Writing Group: Finding Community in a Burning World

The Scientists' Writing Group: Finding Community in a Burning World

Lauren E. Oakes and Emily Polk on Discovering Trust and Courage

By Lauren E. Oakes and Emily Polk | December 4, 2018

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