History

Is History Wasted on Everyone?

Nov 07, 2022

Essay by Martha Nichols

Chaos is a gaping seam in the orderly surface that everyone wants to believe in.

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My Anarchist Heart

May 02, 2022

Essay by John Vogel

I love being sparked by art. It’s one of the best and oldest experiences to which we have access, and when you can achieve that by your own creation, that’s the jackpot.

Memoir, History, Creative Lifer | Read More

White People

Dec 07, 2020

Memoir by Kent Jacobson

You’re what the white folks hate, the races mixing, and the girl knows better.

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An Open Letter to Queen Bess

Jun 22, 2020

Feature by Rita Kurtz

I can only imagine the hell you went through—rejection after rejection.

Diversity, History, Open Letters | Read More

A Visit to Richmond Before My First Protest

Jun 22, 2020

Report by Briana Loveall

The statues were fakes: hollow, plaster-like replicas designed to raise the social status of the owners.

Life Changes, Diversity, History | Read More

The Dark Is What Makes Us

Dec 11, 2017

Report by Meghan Moore-Hubbard

Rural southwestern Virginia is not the Deep South, and Appalachia by its very nature is gothic.

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The Ruins of Gary, Indiana

Oct 30, 2017

Report by Joseph S. Pete

Grinning like a mattress-store salesman, Sam handed us all hardhats and protective eyeglasses.

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Messages from a Former Cambodian Prison

Sep 18, 2017

Report by Alyssa Sorresso

It’s starting again in the U.S.A.

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Telling the Truth About the Modocs

Sep 18, 2017

Essay by Robert Aquinas McNally

Something essential, something dangerous, loomed in this war and deserved the light of literary day.

Writer's Life, History, Truth-telling | Read More

No Trespassing

Feb 06, 2017

Essay by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

I was nervous. Would she in some way feel that I had overstepped the bounds, appropriated her story?

Memoir, Writer's Life, History | Read More

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