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The illustration “Vaccinating the Poor,” by Solomon Eytinge Jr

The Surprisingly Strong Supreme Court Precedent Supporting Vaccine Mandates

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.
by Joel Lau, Peter S. Canellos via Politico Magazine on September 8, 2021
Jacqueline Jones

Biography’s Occupational Hazards: Confronting Your Subject as Both Person and Persona

As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject’s life that left her baffled, even mystified.
by Jacqueline Jones via Perspectives on History on September 8, 2021
Book covers of America on Fire and In Defense of Looting

The Ballot or the Brick

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?
by David Helps via MR Online on August 10, 2021
Woman holding syringe

How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

Hell hath no fury like a man with a vaginal douche named after him.
by Amy Sohn via Literary Hub on July 20, 2021
Collage of sexual freethinkers with a book, a gavel, and a bra.

The Radical Women Who Paved the Way for Free Speech and Free Love

Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history for feminists and other activists.
by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 15, 2021
Painting of a bride cutting cake surrounded by guests at 19th century wedding

A Brief History of the New York Times Wedding Announcements

Cate Doty on the evolution of a society mainstay.
by Cate Doty via Literary Hub on May 14, 2021
Thorstein Veblen in 1880, the year he graduated from Carleton College

The Prophet of Maximum Productivity

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on January 3, 2021
Political cartoon depicting the menace of monopolies and trusts (1899)

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.
by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020

When New Money Meets Old Bloodlines: On America’s Gilded Age Dollar Princesses

The intersecting lives of robber barons and floundering French aristocrats.
by Caroline Weber via Literary Hub on November 13, 2020
Lithograph of Chinese railroad workers waving to train as it comes through a mountain tunnel.

What Was It Like to Ride the Transcontinental Railroad?

The swift, often comfortable ride on the Transcontinental Railroad opened up the American West to new settlement.
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on October 16, 2020
1912 political cartoon of the Aldrich Plan depicted as an octopus with tentacles on a bank, a factory, and a farm while spitting coins into the NYSC.

A Popular History of the Fed

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.
by Noam Maggor, Anton Jäger via Phenomenal World on October 1, 2020

Remnants of the New Deal Order

We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on April 13, 2020
Mike Pence in a warehouse.
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CEOs Email You Heartfelt Coronavirus Messages, While Still Prioritizing the Bottom Line

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.
by Andrew Lynn via Made By History on April 9, 2020
Cartoon caricature of Jack Welch.
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Jack Welch Was a Bitter Foe of American Workers

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.
by Erik Loomis via HNN on March 6, 2020
Cover of "These Truths"

New Yorker Nation

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.
by Richard White via Reviews In American History on June 2, 2019

The Artist-Activists Decolonizing the Whitney Museum

Protesters at the Whitney and other museums are demanding radical changes to the way the art world is governed.
by Daniel Penny via The Paris Review on March 22, 2019

Goodbye, Cold War

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on November 30, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.
by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018

A Century Ago, Progressives Were the Ones Shouting 'Fake News'

The term "fake news" dates back to the end of the 19th century.
by Matthew F. Jordan via The Conversation on February 1, 2018
Political cartoon of the Populist Party python eating the Democratic Party donkey.

Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 14, 2018

What Do We Do With Our Dead?

Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on October 16, 2017

Marx in the United States

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.
by Andrew Hartman, Magnus Møller Ziegler, Tobias Dias via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on October 4, 2017
Sketch of a horse and a bird.
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Excremental Empire

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.
by Benjamin Breen on September 8, 2017
Johnstown, Pennsylvania after flood

How America’s Most Powerful Men Caused America’s Deadliest Flood

A desire to fish created an epic 1889 flood.
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on August 11, 2017

A Billionaires’ Republic

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Nation on July 11, 2017
Donald Trump and Theresa May
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Protectionism 100 Years ago Helped Ignite a World War. Could it Happen Again?

Abandoning free trade doesn't just hurt the economy. It threatens peace and stability across the globe.
by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on June 30, 2017
Political cartoon depicting fat-cat tycoons sitting on money on a dock made of commodities held aloft by struggling laborers.

From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American 'Elite'

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.
by Steven Conn via Origins on May 1, 2017

The Circus Spectacular That Spawned American Giantism

How the “Greatest Show on Earth” enthralled small-town crowds and inspired shopping malls
by Janet M. Davis via What It Means to Be American on March 17, 2017
Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013

Objection

Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 23, 2011

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