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Portrait of Ambrose Bierce with skull

One of America's Best

Ambrose Bierce deviated from the refined eeriness of English-style ghost stories for his haunting descriptions of fateful coincidence and horrific revelation.
by Michael Dirda via New York Review of Books on May 10, 2012
Harriet Beecher Stowe imagining her characters.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Art of Persuasion

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on June 6, 2011
Illustrated cover of the "Secret Garden"

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina via The Public Domain Review on March 8, 2011
Chart describing links between writers, painters, muses, and more in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Friends, Lovers, and Family

The interconnected circles of writers, painters, muses, and more.
via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 1, 2010
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007
Jack Kerouac looking into a shop window, photo by Allen Ginsberg.

Drive, Jack Kerouac Wrote

"On the Road" is a sad and somewhat self-consciously lyrical story about loneliness, insecurity, and failure. It’s also a story about guys who want to be with other guys.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on September 24, 2007
The staff of the Whole Earth Truck Store in 1968 Menlo Park, California.

Natural Systems

Gurney Norman and the dream of the counterculture.
by Tim Leonido via The Point on December 16, 2025
"A City of Fantasy" painting from the mid 19th century
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The First Futurists and the World They Built

From Saint-Simon to Silicon Valley, the urge to forecast the future has always masked a struggle over who gets to define it.
by Jake Pitre via JSTOR Daily on December 3, 2025
Illustration of Rudolph Fisher sitting and typing.

Renaissance Man

Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem.
by Harriet Washington via The American Scholar on December 1, 2025
A woman stands next to a Christmas tree and two feeding horses

Silent Night?

How German immigrants brought Christmas celebrations to the United States.
by Kathleen Brady via Commonweal on November 20, 2025

The Man Incapable of Writing a Bad Sentence

Friends, enemies and lovers animate more than 60 years of the John Updike’s remarkable correspondence.
by John Banville via The Guardian on November 17, 2025
Atlantic Monthly title page from the 1850s.

Doomscrolling in the 1850s

"The Atlantic" was born in an era of information overload.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on November 13, 2025
An illustration of a Black woman elf in a fantasy setting.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist

The fantastical roots of “scientific racism.”
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 11, 2025

Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act

Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
by Carl Rollyson via The Hedgehog Review on November 6, 2025
Viktor Koretsky: Breaking Chains – That's an Echo of Our Revolution! (1968)

Statemania

When the American Dream came to Africa.
by Rahmane Idrissa via Equator on October 29, 2025
Erie Canal, Lockport, New York, c.1855
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The Erie Canal at 200

Finished in October 1825, the Erie Canal connected increasingly specialized regions, altering the economic landscape of the northeast United States.
by Danny Robb, Roger Ransom, Justin Nordstrom, Donald F. Vitaliano, Carol Sheriff via JSTOR Daily on October 25, 2025
A sparrow.

The Fall of a Sparrow

A war photographer’s unflinching images break the idealism surrounding a young Civil War hero’s death.
by Rachel Eisendrath via The Paris Review on October 23, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive President and the AHA

Theodore Roosevelt and the historical discipline.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via Perspectives on History on October 14, 2025
Covers of editions of "The Best American Poetry."

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’

As "The Best American Poetry" anthology ends after nearly forty years, the contradictions of its influence stand out.
by Nick Sturm via Defector on September 30, 2025
Cover of 'Baldwin: A Love Story' by Nicholas Boggs.

Missives Impossible

James Baldwin's fierce attachments.
by Harmony Holiday via Bookforum on September 29, 2025
UC Berkeley's Campus Women's Forum poster

The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict

How the first Women's Studies department was developed at U.C. Berkeley in the 1970s.
by Annabel Barry, Caroline Godard, Anna Park via Public Books on September 10, 2025
25 small photos of Bruce Springsteen playing the guitar or photos of him.

Noir City vs. The Opera on the Turnpike

As Bruce Springsteen’s "Born to Run" turns 50, its most underrated track deserves some love.
by Kirk Curnutt via Clio and the Contemporary on August 26, 2025
Image of Oswald Spengler.

The Strange Fate of Oswald Spengler

Spengler shared the anti-American prejudice of many of his German contemporaries, and it is safe to assume that he would have disparaged us as rootless.
by Kyle Baasch via Compact on August 22, 2025
Image of a crew of sailors fighting a whale.

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

Exploring ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jeremiah N. Reynolds’s wild tale.
by Tim Queeney via Literary Hub on August 12, 2025
World Trade Center towers burning on 9/11.

The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."
by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025
Mike Gold fading into a field of stars of David.

On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the paradoxes of left-wing Zionism.
by Benjamin Balthaser via Literary Hub on July 23, 2025

Eco-Terrorists Aren't What They Used to Be

Fifty years on, "The Monkey Wrench Gang" remains a problematic text for environmental activists, who are inclined to endorse its violent tendencies.
by John Bicknell via Law & Liberty on June 13, 2025
Irving Thalberg and his wife, with Louis Mayer.

The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on June 9, 2025
Drawing of an early baseball game.

If You Print It, They Will Come

Baseball’s early years.
by Patrick Hastings via Library of Congress Blog on May 28, 2025
Illustration of characters from "The Great Gatsby."

How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School

The classroom staple turns a hundred.
by Alexander Manshel via The New Yorker on April 29, 2025
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