Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
the fate of Nonsuch: what was allegedly one of the greatest palaces in all of Europe was given by a disinterested king to a negligent mistress (Charles II to Barbara Villiers), who set about dismantling it to pay off her gambling debts.
Suzannah Lipscomb • A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England
“There was the time she wrote that 9/11 kicked off the Republican campaign to suppress voters. That Donald Trump, in 2016, won the White House partially by ‘asserting that white men should dominate women and people of color.’ That Trump choosing J.D. Vance as a running mate, in 2024, showed an ideology of rejecting democracy in favor of Christian... See more
Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson is one of Substack’s most successful authors, with 1.8 million subscribers — and social media. TikTok’s year-long interest in the Roman Empire, and how often men claim to think about it, has been the subject of more than 85 million videos.
Books and podcasts about history are surging in popularity, making ...
The other side of the story
Mary Beard • SPQR
propitious
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
