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'I Long Regretted Bitterly, and Still Regret That I Had Not Given It To Him'
Benjamin Franklin's writing about losing his son to smallpox is a must-read for parents weighing COVID-19 vaccines today.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
via
TIME
on
November 2, 2021
A Gold Rush of Witnesses
Letters, diaries, and remembrances shared on JSTOR by University of the Pacific reveal the hardships of day-to-day life during the California Gold Rush.
by
Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 23, 2025
The Measles Vaccine Came From His Body. He Went Anti-vax. Not Anymore.
As a boy, David Edmonston was the source of today’s measles vaccine. Now he regrets vaccine doubts.
by
Marc Fischer
via
Washington Post
on
March 12, 2025
The Right Side of Now
Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
via
The New Yorker
on
June 24, 2024
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
by
Sharon Lerner
via
The New Yorker
on
May 20, 2024
Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura’s Shocking Election 25 Years Ago Previewed Trump’s
The former pro wrestler says his surprise election as Minnesota governor paved the way for Donald Trump. Now he looks back “shamefully” on their past ties.
by
Frederic J. Frommer
via
Retropolis
on
November 3, 2023
Did We Really Need to Drop the Bomb?
American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.
by
Paul Ham
via
American Heritage
on
August 6, 2023
The Real History Behind Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'
The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?
by
Andy Kifer
via
Smithsonian
on
July 18, 2023
The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie
Before Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer," the world nearly got Ayn Rand’s "Tribute to Free Enterprise."
by
Greg Mitchell
via
Literary Hub
on
July 17, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg’s Life Beyond the Pentagon Papers
After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.
by
Ben Bradlee Jr.
via
The New Yorker
on
June 16, 2023
Moral Injuries
Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.
by
Will Selber
via
Bulwark+
on
March 20, 2023
Iraq Veterans, 20 Years Later: ‘I Don’t Know How to Explain the War to Myself’
Nearly 20 years after their deployment to Iraq, veterans grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war.
by
Petra Epperlein
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Michael Tucker
via
New York Times Op-Docs
on
March 15, 2023
The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books
How a best-selling series gave young readers a new sense of agency.
by
Leslie Jamison
via
The New Yorker
on
September 12, 2022
The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter
A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
by
Jonathan Alter
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Timothy Noah
,
Kai Bird
via
Washington Monthly
on
November 8, 2021
The Lure of the White Sands
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.
by
Rich Cohen
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 29, 2021
Editing Donald Trump
What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.
by
Peter Osnos
via
The New Yorker
on
November 3, 2019
Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest
Letters come in each year with pilfered stones from the national park, hoping to break the senders' curse.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
via
Collectors Weekly
on
July 29, 2019
For Some, School Integration Was More Tragedy Than Fairy Tale
Almost 60 years later, a mother regrets her decision to send her 6-year-old into a hate-filled environment.
by
Jarvis Deberry
via
nola.com
on
May 29, 2019
Was Gary Hart Set Up?
On his deathbed, GOP strategist Lee Atwater admitted he staged the events that brought down a Democratic presidential candidate.
by
James Fallows
via
The Atlantic
on
October 16, 2018
How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case
The woman whose testimony was central to the infamous case admits feeling 'tender sorrow.'
by
Sheila Weller
via
Vanity Fair
on
January 26, 2017
America the Beautiful
One hundred years ago, "The Great Gatsby" was first published. It remains one of the books that almost every literate American has read.
by
John Pistelli
via
The Metropolitan Review
on
April 7, 2025
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
by
Aaron Bady
via
Boston Review
on
October 30, 2024
partner
How Do We Tell a Tale of People Who Sought to Disappear?
The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.
by
Susanna Ashton
via
HNN
on
August 13, 2024
In Search of the Broad Highway
Revisiting Meredith v. Fair, we get the inside story of how critical race theory was developed in the years after Brown v. Board of Education.
by
Dave Tell
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
July 26, 2024
Oppenheimer’s Second Coming
Japanese were interested when Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest in 1960. Will they be also interested in the Nolan film released today in Japan?
by
Gregory Kulacki
via
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
on
March 28, 2024
For Years, the Reagans' Daughter Regretted Some Things She Wrote. Now She's at Peace.
Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people.
by
Mary McNamara
via
Los Angeles Times
on
February 6, 2024
partner
What Civil War History Says About Attempts to Use the Insurrection Clause to Keep Trump From Office
Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.
by
Elizabeth R. Varon
via
Made By History
on
November 15, 2023
The Men Who Started the War
John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
via
The Atlantic
on
November 13, 2023
They Were Deported to Build a U.S. Naval Base. Now They Want Reparations.
50 years after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.
by
DeNeen L. Brown
via
Washington Post
on
October 8, 2023
A North Carolina Town’s Historic Play Ends Redface and Hires Native Actors
“The Lost Colony” had dramatized American mythology in the Outer Banks since 1937 with White actors as Indians. Now, Native performers are rewriting the story.
by
Gregory S. Schneider
via
Retropolis
on
August 12, 2023
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