About Alexis Coe
Welcome, history cranks and fiends!
I’m Alexis Coe, an award-winning presidential historian, New York Times bestselling author and, as of 2025, the American history columnist at the New York Times Book Review and a senior fellow at New America.
Study Marry Kill is my lil’ newsletter, recently featured on PBS, where I writes essays on whatever moves me. Regular features include:
Reply Some (answers to your best questions and questions)
Wordy Wednesday (language under the knife)
Lies We Learned (myth-busting interventions)
Behind the Essay (the story behind my print pieces)
I cover the famous and the forgotten, tell overlooked stories, dismantle myths and unpack their origins, and expose how history still gets mangled. I’ll defend an underpaid interpreter, drag a lazy biographer, drop mini-biographies, and let things get weird. Some choice bits belong to paid subscribers.