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How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon
In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.
by
Alexander Manshel
via
The Nation
on
September 11, 2024
Past Tense
The historical novel isn’t cool. Popular? Yes. Enduring? Yes. A bit, well — for nerds? Also yes. Coolness lies in being at the right place at the right time.
by
David Schurman Wallace
via
The Drift
on
March 12, 2024
What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure
Attribution can make visible the vast infrastructure of research and display how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, it has faciliated.
by
Karin Wulf
via
The Scholarly Kitchen
on
January 18, 2024
Mason-Dixon Lines
The boundary lines preceding Mason and Dixon, everybody knows, were a sham. What’s to follow will be no better.
by
Edward G. Gray
via
Commonplace
on
January 16, 2024
All Dolled Up
How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.
by
Jayne Ross
via
The American Scholar
on
November 30, 2023
The Other South
Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."
by
Steve Nathans-Kelly
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Dennis Lehane
via
Chicago Review Of Books
on
May 11, 2023
A Tale of Two Toms
The uses and abuses of history through the "diary" of Thomas Fallon.
by
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
via
Commonplace
on
July 12, 2022
How The Dear America Series Taught Young Girls They Had A Place In History
History classes made it seem like young girls wouldn't ever change the course of the world. These books taught them that they could.
by
Angela Lashbrook
via
Refinery29
on
July 19, 2021
Bacon's Rebellion: My Pitch
A drama about an interracial uprising in colonial Virginia.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
June 15, 2021
A Very Lost Cause Love Affair
Is it possible to write a good Civil War romance?
by
Sarah Handley-Cousins
via
Nursing Clio
on
December 5, 2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom
In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by
Elias Rodriques
via
The Nation
on
October 29, 2019
50 Years Ago: America Loved a Little House
The beloved family show left a lasting legacy.
by
Troy Brownfield
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
September 11, 2024
What Red Dead Redemption II Reveals About Our Myths of the American West
On the making of a centuries-old obsession at the heart of American national identity.
by
Tore C. Olsson
via
Literary Hub
on
August 28, 2024
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A Nice, Provocative Silence
The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.
by
Francis Spufford
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
via
HNN
on
August 13, 2024
The Battle of Blair Mountain and Stories Untold: A Conversation with Taylor Brown
An interview with Taylor Brown, author of the novel "Rednecks."
by
Steve Nathans-Kelly
,
Taylor Brown
via
Chicago Review Of Books
on
May 21, 2024
The Problem With TV's New Holocaust Obsession
From 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' to 'We Were the Lucky Ones,' a new wave of Holocaust dramas feel surprisingly shallow.
by
Judy Berman
via
TIME
on
May 8, 2024
Checking out Historical Chicago: Cynthia Pelayo's "Forgotten Sisters"
The SS Eastland disaster and Chicago's ghosts.
by
Elizabeth McNeill
via
Chicago Review Of Books
on
March 20, 2024
The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth Goes On
A new television miniseries depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
March 11, 2024
The Hold of the Dead Over the Living
A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”
by
Jill Lepore
,
Julien Crockett
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
January 2, 2024
The Forgotten Giant of Yiddish Fiction
Though his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer eventually eclipsed him, Israel Joshua Singer excelled at showing characters buffeted by the tides of history.
by
Adam Kirsch
via
The New Yorker
on
November 27, 2023
After Melville
In every generation, writers and readers find new ways to plumb the depths of Herman Melville and his work.
by
Andrew Schenker
via
The Baffler
on
November 22, 2023
Bruce Lee’s “Warrior,” and the Politics of Kung Fu
The Max series makes a radical argument for what constitutes American history.
by
Jasper Lo
via
The New Yorker
on
September 12, 2023
Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb
On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
by
Alex Wellerstein
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 30, 2023
Lost Histories of Coexistence
James McBride’s new novel tells a story of solidarity between Black and Jewish communities.
by
Ayana Mathis
via
The Atlantic
on
August 8, 2023
"If America Doesn't Become America": Outlander and the American Revolution
"Outlander" challenges the myth of American exceptionalism at the root of much U.S. popular culture.
by
Michelle Orihel
via
Age of Revolutions
on
July 3, 2023
Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire
He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
June 21, 2023
History Is Hard to Decode
On 50 years of Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.”
by
M. Keith Booker
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
February 28, 2023
"The Crucible" and John and Elizabeth Proctor of Salem
It is worth digging a bit deeper into the family matters between John and Elizabeth.
by
Benjamin Ray
via
Commonplace
on
February 7, 2023
The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. Butler
The story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.
by
E. Alex Jung
via
Vulture
on
November 21, 2022
The Building Blocks of History
A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.
by
Walker Mimms
,
Richard Cohen
via
The Nation
on
August 17, 2022
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