Crafts and trades that have survived through the centuries. How some faded into history, while others continue to thrive to this day.
Power, Politics, and the Myth of Exceptionalism
How the World Denied Women Their Rights — and What Came of It
The History of One of the Most Brutal Deportations in the USSR
From the Xiongnu Empire to the Turkish Republic
Ethnographer Dosymbek Qatyran on ancient greetings and forgotten rituals
Timothy May on Chinggis Khan, Warfare, and the Limits of Conquest
From Medieval Folk Hero to Soviet Screen Icon
Politics, Ethnography, and a Kazakh Scholar’s Uneasy Legacy
How the Nomadic Way of Life Gave Rise to an Ancient Science
Guess what this thing was used for.
Qalam’s Curated History Reading List
How the Kazakh Khanate’s Economy Worked—and Why It Was Far More Complex Than It Seems
The Actor Who Became the Face of an Era
