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Puerto Rico: A National History

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.

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India
Audrey Truschke

American Maccabee
Andrew Porwancher

Looking for a Story
Noel Rubinton

The World at First Light
Bernd Roeck

Classicism and Other Phobias
Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Queer Moderns
Alice T. Friedman

Iran's Grand Strategy
Vali Nasr

Elusive Cures
Nicole C. Rust

The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear
Nan Z. Da

Paradise Lost
Alan Jacobs

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As Gods Among Men
Guido Alfani

How We Age
Coleen T. Murphy

Two Cheers for Anarchism
James C. Scott

The Influencer Industry
Emily Hund

The Power of Cute
Simon May

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Reading List On the freedom to read, speak, and exchange ideas
April 14, 2025
The free and open exchange of ideas underlies intellectual inquiry and is the bedrock of a democratic society. Through engaged dialogue we refine our thinking, test our assumptions, and move closer to shared human truths.
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Reading List Books for advancing the humanities and affirming our shared humanity
May 06, 2025
According to the recent World Humanities Report, the humanities are threatened for the very reasons they are powerful. Literature, the arts, philosophy, aesthetics, history: these disciplines—once considered vital to understanding what it means to be human—remain crucial in providing frameworks for understanding human experience, fostering ethical reasoning, countering authoritarianism, and addressing societal problems.
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Essay Lars Krutak on Indigenous Tattoo Traditions
May 05, 2025
Transporting readers through history, anthropologist Lars Krutak explores the art and customs of tattooing across numerous ancestral lands, including Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Arctic, Oceania, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Siberia.
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Essay The world of John McPhee
May 14, 2025
When I set out to find the whole world of John McPhee, to document and explore his extraordinary career as a writer, I had no sense of the fascinating marathon of research ahead.
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Interview Shari Rabin on The Jewish South
May 29, 2025
In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,” ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States.
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Podcast Citizen Marx
May 19, 2025
In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism.
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