The only surviving image that may depict Anne Hathaway, made by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708.

Anne Shakespeare: Toward a Biography

Let’s check in with Anne Shakespeare, née Hathaway, about whom so little is known.
Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907

Mexico, 1910: An Influential Sneeze or a Home-Grown Revolution?

Historians are rethinking the claim that the Panic of 1907 in the United States helped spark the Mexican Revolution.
Bill of Rights, 1791

The Bill of Rights: Annotated

Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has become a critical protector of civil liberties.
A woman wearing a face mask walks inside the Universal Studio station on March 05, 2020 in Osaka, Japan.

The Fear of Bare, Naked Ladies’ Faces

The mask, like the veil, is seen by the anxious West as concealing a racialized female subject in need of liberation from a backward culture.
A screenshot from Civilization V

History and Civilization

The Civilization video games may not convey actual history very well, but they’ve encouraged generations of young people to learn more about the past.
Japanese Travel Poster, ca. 1936

Western Travel Writers or Japanese War Propagandists?

Even as Japan courted Western tourists with images of exotic customs and untouched landscapes, the Second Sino-Japanese War raged across East Asia.
Colourful silhouettes of people with weight issues.

Weight in the Sociology Classroom

Body weight is in some ways a trickier topic for sociology students than other stigmas. One professor explains how he approaches the challenge of discussing it.

How Libraries Stand the Test of Time

The digital era builds upon millennia of librarianship as humans strive to preserve our cultural heritage.
Ron Jaffe/AMC

Mad Men and Its Obsession with Frenchness

Mad Men’s in-universe fascination with Frenchness was so frequent and important to the plot(s) that it might as well have been a main character.
Clockwise: Agha Shahid Ali, Elizabeth Bishop, William Logan, Paisley Rekdal, Charles Fort, Tim Seibles.

10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets

Read these recursive, nineteen-line poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Paisley Rekdal, William Logan, Agha Shahid Ali, and more.