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Counter-Histories of the Internet

Our ethics and desires can shape digital networks at least as forcefully as those networks influence us.
by Marta Figlerowicz via Public Books on February 25, 2019
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" book cover

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are undermining personal freedom and corroding democracy.
by Nicholas Carr via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 15, 2019
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A Delicious History of “Meatless Meat”

Non-meat proteins have a long history – and are looking more like the necessary food of the future.
by Maki Naro via The Nib on November 14, 2018

The 1919 Murder Case That Gave Americans the Right to Remain Silent

Decades before the Miranda decision, a Washington triple-homicide paced the way to protect criminal suspects.
by Scott D. Seligman via Zócalo Public Square on April 30, 2018
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Periodicals Are Reassessing Their Pasts. It’s Time for Publishers to Do the Same

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.
by Yuliya Komska via Made By History on March 22, 2018
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Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on August 23, 2017

The Rise and Fall of the “Sellout”

The history of the epithet, from its rise among leftists and jazz critics and folkies to its recent fall from favor.
by Franz Nicolay via Slate on July 28, 2017
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Bonfire of the Humanities

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
by Samuel Moyn via The Nation on January 21, 2015
Library card catalog card reading "Forgetfulness: see memory."

Historical Amnesias: An Interview with Paul Connerton

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
by Paul Connerton, Sina Najafi, Jeffery Kastner via Cabinet on June 30, 2011
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I.O.U.

What replaced imprisonment for debt was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on April 6, 2009

Making Sense of Robert E. Lee

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg
by Roy Blount Jr. via Smithsonian on July 1, 2003
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Two Generals Contest the Definition of Cruelty

Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.
by William Tecumseh Sherman, John B. Hood via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 1864

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