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A charming exhibition at London’s Charles Dickens Museum provides a fascinating glimpse into the private lives of two great English writers.
In the fifteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Henry Hudson’s tragic 1610-11 voyage to the saltwater bay that now bears his name.
Most new movies feature neither good storytelling nor innovative filmmaking. Instead, they rely on the nostalgia of ready-made fan bases.
Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it.
The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation.
For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.
A new biopic about Bayard Rustin and the New York Met’s opera about the life of Malcolm X celebrate very different notions of black struggle.
A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.
Costin Alamariu’s (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesn’t add up to much.
Elmer Kelton’s ‘The Time It Never Rained’ is an overlooked classic.
In the fifth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the conclusion to the Visigoths’ four-decade quest for a permanent homeland.
For more than five centuries, the humble pocket has changed the way we equip ourselves to face the world.
Humanism aspires to ethical universalism but in practice it is defined by what it opposes and excludes.
“It’s a sin to want to die for a nation.”
The Enlightenment was as remarkable as it was unexpected, but it led directly to the benefits we enjoy today.