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Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

Elyse Graham Explores the Mundane Yet Dangerous World of Espionage During the Second World War

By Elyse Graham | September 25, 2024

Paper Trail: On the Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Notebook

Paper Trail: On the Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Notebook

Roland Allen Explores the Millennia-Long History of Jotting Things Down

By Roland Allen | September 9, 2024

How the Massacre of Beziers Marked the Beginning of Centuries of Violence in Europe

How the Massacre of Beziers Marked the Beginning of Centuries of Violence in Europe

T.D. Allman on Medieval Spiritual Corruption and Bloody Religious Warfare in Southern France

By T. D. Allman | August 28, 2024

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Katherine Bucknell on the Tumultuous World That Made the Novella and Its Protagonist

By Katherine Bucknell | August 26, 2024

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

Kapka Kassabova Explores What’s Left of an Ancient Tradition Marked by a Century of Upheaval

By Kapka Kassabova | August 7, 2024

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Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

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A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

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