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What We Meant When We Said 'Crackhead'
“I’ve learned, through hundreds of interviews and years of research, is that what crack really did was expose every vulnerability of society.”
by
Donovan X. Ramsey
via
The Atlantic
on
July 11, 2023
What Reparations Actually Bought
The U.S. government’s redress program for Japanese Americans showed that the money matters. But it’s not the only thing that matters.
by
Morgan Ome
via
The Atlantic
on
June 10, 2023
Nostalgia's Empire
We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.
by
Grafton Tanner
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Johny Pitts
via
Public Books
on
June 8, 2023
The Busboy
Witness to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
via
StoryCorps
on
June 6, 2023
Ego-Histories
The more that historians make their own experiences an explicit part of their work, the harder it will become to let the sources speak clearly.
by
David A. Bell
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New York Review of Books
on
June 1, 2023
The Second Generation of School Shootings
The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
The Atlantic
on
May 23, 2023
The House Next Door to the Stooges
A visit to the old neighborhood.
by
Robin Hemley
via
Turning Life into Fiction
on
May 17, 2023
The Other South
Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."
by
Steve Nathans-Kelly
,
Dennis Lehane
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Chicago Review of Books
on
May 11, 2023
Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith
Creating a personal myth allows celebrities to create just that—a myth.
by
Landon Y. Jones
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Literary Hub
on
May 9, 2023
Wedding Cake Toppers: Miniatures, Excess, and Fantasy
Tying frilly white doves and normative bride-and-groom couples to feminist art and DIY craft practices that offer opportunities for creativity and fantasy.
by
Kendall DeBoer
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Dilettante Army
on
May 1, 2023
The Gift of Slam Poetry
A short history of a misunderstood literary genre and the world it created.
by
Joshua Bennett
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The Nation
on
April 26, 2023
Moral Injuries
Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.
by
Will Selber
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Bulwark+
on
March 20, 2023
A Known and Unknown War
Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
by
Michael Brenes
via
Contingent
on
March 20, 2023
The Grassroots of 'Roe'
My mother’s part in the 1970 repeal of New York’s abortion law is a lesson for today’s activists: all politics is local.
by
Felicia Kornbluh
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New York Review of Books
on
January 16, 2023
What Hollywood’s Ultimate Oral History Reveals
For all the clouds of publicity, the dream machine is actually a craft business. Have we asked too much of it?
by
Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
on
November 28, 2022
The Elusive Roots of Rosin Potatoes
A talk with family, turpentine workers, historians, chefs, foresters, and beer brewers to get to the root of the rosin potato's origins.
by
Caroline Hatchett
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The Bitter Southerner
on
November 22, 2022
Living in White Spaces: Suburbia's Hidden Histories
The Black women and men who worked and slept in white homes are mostly invisible in the histories of suburbia.
by
David S. Rotenstein
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The Metropole
on
October 10, 2022
I Never Saw the System
As a white teenager in Charlotte, Elizabeth Prewitt saw mandatory school busing as a personal annoyance. Going to an integrated high school changed that.
by
Elizabeth Prewitt
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Admissions Projects
on
October 1, 2022
Trouble in River City
Two recent books examine the idea of the Midwest as a haven for white supremacy and patriarchy.
by
Caroline Fraser
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New York Review of Books
on
September 29, 2022
We Didn't Vanquish Polio. What Does That Mean for Covid-19?
The world is still reeling from the pandemic, but another scourge we thought we’d eliminated has reemerged.
by
Patrick Cockburn
via
The Nation
on
September 19, 2022
How Researchers Preserved the Oral Histories of Formerly Enslaved Virginians
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project interviewed 300 formerly enslaved Virginians to share their oral histories.
by
David A. Taylor
via
Washington Post Magazine
on
July 19, 2022
The Buffalo I Knew
The city is at a crossroads. Which path will it take?
by
Ishmael Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 9, 2022
The Life Lessons of Summer Camp
A few weeks in the woods have taught kids to face new situations, make their way among strangers, solve their own problems—and live a more authentic life.
by
Rich Cohen
via
The Wall Street Journal
on
July 8, 2022
“I Called Jane” for a Pre-“Roe” Illegal Abortion
No woman should have to go through what I went through, and no woman should have to overcome barriers to obtain a safe abortion.
by
Carol Chapman
via
The Nation
on
June 29, 2022
That Ol’ Thumb: Hitchhiking
A review of "Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us About Humanity."
by
Mike Jay
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London Review of Books
on
June 23, 2022
The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter
A conversation with historian Donna Murch about the past, present, and future of Black radical organizing.
by
Elias Rodriques
,
Donna Murch
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The Nation
on
May 24, 2022
Miscarriage Wasn’t Always a Tragedy or a Crime
Looking back on 150 years of history shows that American women grappled with miscarriages amid different legal, medical, and racial norms.
by
Shannon Withycombe
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Zócalo Public Square
on
May 18, 2022
The Forgotten Legacy of Boston’s Historic Black Graveyard
At one of Boston’s historical burial grounds, more than 1,000 Black Bostonians were laid to rest in unmarked graves. Their legacy continues to haunt us today.
by
Dart Adams
via
Boston Magazine
on
May 3, 2022
The Second (and Third) Battle of Lexington
What kind of place was the town I grew up in?
by
Bill McKibben
via
The New Yorker
on
May 1, 2022
An Ornate Desk, Family History and the Jewish Past
My mother’s desk connected me with our shared heritage.
by
David M. Perry
via
Washington Post
on
April 29, 2022
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