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John Ossoff.

The Politics of Nostalgia

Nostalgia is not merely reductive; it is also productive.
by Rachel B. Gross via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on February 2, 2021

Her Sentimental Properties

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.
by Sarah Mesle via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 22, 2020
An abstract painting.

Working with Death

The experience of feeling in the archive.
by Ruth Lawlor via Perspectives on History on December 15, 2020
Person holding suitcase at gas station with other person in background

Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020
A nose smelling.

What Smells Can Teach Us About History

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted.
by Shayla Love via Vice on September 16, 2020
Bill of Mortality from the plague, and New York Times list of Covid deaths.

When 194,000 Deaths Doesn’t Sound Like So Many

From plague times to the coronavirus, the history of our flawed ability to process mass casualty events.
by Rebecca Onion, Jacqueline Wernimont via Slate on September 13, 2020

Charismatic Models

There is, and always has been, a vanishingly thin line between charismatic democratic rulers and charismatic authoritarians.
by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 26, 2020
19th caricature of a dentist extracting a tooth

Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America

American fiction of the 19th century often featured a cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found unnerving.
by Chelsea Davis via The Public Domain Review on July 1, 2020

An Oral History of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue

Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way
by Maria Schneider, Brian VanHooker, Robert Siegel, Todd Hanson, Mike Loew, Chad Nackers, Carol Kolb, Chris Karwowski, Tim Harrod, Mike Sacks, Nat Towsen, Joe Garden, Jim Romenesko via MEL on June 29, 2020
People standing in line at a detention center, watched by an enforcement officer.

America’s Long History of Imprisoning Children

Through slavery, Indian boarding schools, Japanese internment, mass incarceration, and anti-Communist wars against civilian populations in Latin America.
by Laura Briggs via Literary Hub on June 19, 2020

The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909–11)

Including musical notation of its songs, kahs, and coos.
via The Public Domain Review on April 30, 2020

Bad Romance

The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.
by Alyssa Battistoni via Dissent on April 13, 2020

The History of Loneliness

Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 30, 2020

Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

A conversation with Breanne Fahs on the lasting lessons of women's anger.
by Soraya Chemaly, Breanne Fah via Literary Hub on March 24, 2020

The Unquiet Hymnbook in the Early United States

This post is a part of our “Faith in Revolution” series, which explores the ways that religious ideologies and communities shaped the revolutionary era.
by Christopher N. Phillips via Age of Revolutions on March 2, 2020

Rules of Engagement

The value of shame in objects.
by Wendy S. Walters via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 5, 2020
Photographs of Lilian Smith and Frank Yerby.

Frank Yerby and Lillian Smith: Challenging the Myths of Whiteness

Both Southerners. Both all but forgotten. Both, in their own ways, questioned the social constructions of race and white supremacy in their writings.
by Matthew Teutsch via The Bitter Southerner on January 9, 2020

Before And After

The allegations against Michael Jackson make listening to his songs a struggle, one that resists the comfort those songs once provided.
by Ann Powers via NPR on December 11, 2019
Elizabeth Pryor

Why It's So Hard to Talk about the N-word

A professor explains the trauma of encountering "an idea disguised as a word."
by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor via TED on December 1, 2019
Trump through a television camera.

How TV Paved America’s Road to Trump

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.
by Sean Illing, James Poniewozik via Vox on November 7, 2019

The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to "Peanuts"

How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.
by Chris Ware via The New Yorker on September 24, 2019

The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.
by T. H. Breen via Literary Hub on September 23, 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
Teenage students in a classroom.

What It Felt Like

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 20, 2019
Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Tiya Miles.

Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Tiya Miles, Jim Knable via Medium on February 26, 2019

The Real Roots of American Rage

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
by Charles Duhigg via The Atlantic on December 15, 2018
Portrait of Emily Dickinson next to a portrait of Susan Gilbert

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

“Come with me this morning to the church within our hearts, where the bells are always ringing, and the preacher whose name is Love — shall intercede for us!”
by Maria Popova via Brainpickings on December 10, 2018

In the 19th Century, Miscarriage Could Be a Happy Relief

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 26, 2018

Democrats’ Struggle Over Masculinity 50 Years Ago is Still Playing Out Today

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.
by Aram Goudsouzian via The Conversation on November 1, 2018

America Descends Into the Politics of Rage

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.
by Joanne B. Freeman via The Atlantic on October 22, 2018
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