Happy Birthday Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel!
Professor Donald E. Pease, author of Theodore Seuss Geisel, chronicles how Dr. Seuss got his name.
Beauty Imagined: Boom Time for Natural Cosmetics
Professor Geoffrey Jones, author of Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry, writes about the boom in natural cosmetics.
Sliced Bread 2.0
Dennis Baron evaluates the success of the internet.
Islamagic?
Adam Silverstein compares the study of Islamic history to the performance of magic.
Happy Birthday Arthur Schopenhauer
A look at Arthur Schopenhauer.
Medicine and The Bible
An excerpt from The Oxford Companion to the Bible.
Why Bad News for Dems in 2010
Could be Good News for the President
Elvin Lim looks at Congress and the President.
Adams on Washington: “Charming” and “Noble”
In honor of Presidents Day, we present the following excerpt from John Adams: A Live, in which John Ferling details John Adams’ first impressions of George Washington, and what ultimately led to Washington’s nomination for Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Love and Marriage in Antebellum African America
In this excerpt from her book, ‘Til Death or Distance Do Us Part, Frances Smith Foster discusses the desire for love and marriage within the African American slave community in the antebellum South.
Flight from Monticello
Michael Kranish takes us behind the scenes.
Ronald Reagan v. the Tea Party Movement
Elvin Lim’s weekly column looks at Reagan and Sarah Palin.
The Who, Herman’s Hermits, and the Ivy League:
Studio Myth, February 1965
Gordon Thompson on February 1965.
On Nurses and Doctors
An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing.
The Many Legacies of Aids
An excerpt from Erotic City.
Obama is Liked but Not Supported
Elvin Lim looks at President Obama.
The Arsenic Century: The Case of the Poisoned Partridges
A short extract from James C. Whorton’s The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.