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Vintage drawing of a rural area with snowfall. In the foreground, two horses are pulling a man in a cart on the snowy road.

Cox’s Snow and the Persistence of Weather Memory

One of the worst snowstorms recorded in Virginia’s history began on Sunday, January 17, 1857. It remained in Virginians' collective memories eighty years later.
by Patricia Miller via Encyclopedia Virginia on January 5, 2022
Aerial view of trees in Tongass National Forest, Alaska.

This Tree has Stood Here for 500 Years. Will it be Sold for $17,500?

Old-growth trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.
by Juliet Eilperin via Washington Post on December 30, 2021
Illustrations from Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup, 1853, depicting an African American man hugging his family.

A Dark Cloud over Enjoyment

Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.
by Erin Austin Dwyer via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 7, 2021
The Crystals, a Black girl-group, performing at a high school prom.

The Kansas City School That Became a Stop for R. & B. Performers

In the nineteen-sixties, artists such as Bo Diddley and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue played the prom at Pembroke-Country Day.
by David Dale Owen via The New Yorker on December 4, 2021
People sitting on a hill overlooking a harbor

How We Became Weekly

The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it.
by David Hinkin via Aeon on November 30, 2021
Photo of a young Dorothy Day in front of a bookshelf.

How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

"What the Catholic church wanted us to understand about women and anger—that we simply didn’t experience it—backfired spectacularly."
by Kaya Oakes via Literary Hub on November 30, 2021
Book cover of Pushing Cool, featuring a photo of a cigarette ad on the side of a building.

Selling Menthol: On Keith Wailoo’s “Pushing Cool”

A history of the menthol cigarette and its effects on Black people.
by Vesper North via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 31, 2021
Man standing on top of a phone booth, surrounded by rioters outside of city hall.

The Forgotten City Hall Riot

In 1992, thousands of drunken cops raged against the mayor of New York — leaving an indelible mark on the city’s likely next mayor.
by Laura Nahmias via Intelligencer on October 4, 2021
FDNY firefighters in WTC wreckage

What Gilles Peress Saw on 9/11

The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an “inconceivable event.”
by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on September 9, 2021
Cuban Women class photo at Harvard University in the summer of 1900.

‘Cuba: An American History’ Review: That Infernal Little Republic

Cuba has spent its entire existence as a state and much of its late colonial past in Uncle Sam’s purported backyard.
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto via The Wall Street Journal on September 3, 2021
Boats moored in the water in front of a row of houses on the beach. Photo by Amani Willett.

Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on August 30, 2021
A family posing for a picture on a porch

Porch Memories

An architectural historian invites us to sit with her awhile on the American porch.
by Federica Soletta via The Public Domain Review on August 4, 2021
Young Lords Party demonstration

The Revolution That Wasn’t

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?
by Michael Kazin via The New Republic on July 30, 2021
Collage of audio-related images, records, cassettes, CDs, wav files, ipods, electronic media icons, and an ear.

What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?

If your entire collection is on a streaming service, good luck accessing it in 10 or 20 years.
by Joe Pinsker via The Atlantic on July 19, 2021
Drawing of ailing person in bed with another person sitting in chair facing them

How Early Americans Narrated Disease

Early Americans coped with disease through narratives that found divine providence and mercy in suffering.
by Philippa Koch via Zócalo Public Square on July 6, 2021
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their arrest in New York for espionage in 1950.

The Rosenbergs Were Executed For Spying in 1953. Can Their Sons Reveal The Truth?

The Rosenbergs were executed for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough?
by Hadley Freeman via The Guardian on June 19, 2021
Hundreds of people watch RFK's funeral train pass by.

Inside RFK's Funeral Train: How His Final Journey Helped a Nation Grieve

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.
by Steven M. Gillon via HISTORY on June 7, 2021
Marvin Gaye

How Marvin Gaye Earned a Tryout for the Detroit Lions

On the 50th anniversary of ‘What’s Going On,’ a look back on Gaye's onetime dream to become a professional football player.
by Justin Tinsley via Andscape on May 21, 2021
Estebanico

Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories

The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on May 4, 2021
A young girl kneels by a dead body, yelling.

The Girl in the Kent State Photo and the Lifelong Burden of Being a National Symbol

In 1970, an image of a dead protester at Kent State became iconic. But what happened to the 14-year-old kneeling next to him?
by Patricia McCormick via Washington Post Magazine on April 19, 2021
Black and white photo of poet John Berryman having a beer and a conversation with a group of men

‘The Roots of Our Madness’

John Berryman's Dream Songs made explicit the racialization of American poetry's turn—and the whiteness of lyric tradition.
by Kamran Javadizadeh via New York Review of Books on April 8, 2021
Drawing of Speedy Gonzales

Why Do So Many Mexican Americans Defend Speedy Gonzales?

A stereotype? Definitely. Problematic? You bet. But many Mexican Americans still love the cartoon character.
by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on March 17, 2021
A row of black and white pencils.

Anna Deavere Smith on Forging Black Identity in 1968

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.
by Anna Deavere Smith via The Atlantic on February 9, 2021
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

Signs and Wonders

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.
by Francine Prose via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 2020

Mark Twain’s Mind Waves

Mark Twain was a prankster, but his belief in telepathy was real enough that he worried about unintentional telepathic plagiarism.
by Chantel Tattoli via The Paris Review on August 25, 2020
Hurricane Katrina flooding.

Through Hell and High Water: Katrina's First Responders Oral History Project

A collection of interviews with rescue workers who responded to the disaster.
via The Historic New Orleans Collection on June 27, 2020

Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.
by Viet Thanh Nguyen via TIME on June 26, 2020
An image of Bob Dylan performing with a spotlight on him.

Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List

The author reflects on his own journey with Dylan, and shares some of his favorite pieces of Dylanology.
by Aaron Gilbreath via Longreads on June 24, 2020
A close-up of an African-American woman's face and hair

On Liberating the History of Black Hair

Emma Dabiri deconstructs colonial ideas of Blackness.
by Emma Dabiri via Literary Hub on June 23, 2020
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