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How My Kid Lost a Game of ‘Magic’ to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Original Art

Ben Marks on all that came of one interview in 1994.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on November 7, 2019

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 29, 2019

Video Games Can Bring Older Family Members' Personal History Back to Life

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.
by Bob De Schutter via The Conversation on September 18, 2019

A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy

Groundbreaking discoveries... but at what cost?
by Andrew Scull via Literary Hub on July 30, 2019

The Breaks of History

We might say that these books are recording a life with music, and that they are worth listening to.
by Robert Cashin Ryan via Public Books on July 29, 2019

Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.
by Nathan Heller via The New Yorker on July 22, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

‘Ready To Explode’

How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago.
by William Lee via Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2019
Neil Armstrong and the American flag on the moon.

Apollo 11 Capsule Foil and Memories of Plucking NASA’s Moonmen From the Sea

A recollection of a NASA employee's experiences with Apollo 11 and 12.
by David Porter II, Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on July 12, 2019
Illustrated figures sit inside a pink triangle embedded with gender markers.

An Oral History of the Early Trans Internet

Trans people have existed since the dawn of time. The internet has not.
by Henry Giardina via Gizmodo on July 9, 2019

An Ives Fourth

Nostalgia or nightmare?
by Sudip Bose via The American Scholar on July 4, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.
by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on May 16, 2019

The Inventor of Mother’s Day

Anna Jarvis spent years fighting the holiday’s commercialization, but that may have hastened its descent into Hallmark territory.
by Sophie Monks Kaufman via Hazlitt on May 9, 2019
A young boy watches a man play the guitar.

How Eudora Welty’s Photography Captured My Grandmother’s History

Natasha Trethewey on experiencing a past not our own.
by Natasha Trethewey via Literary Hub on May 7, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

At what point does resistance become the only choice?
by Edmund White via Literary Hub on April 30, 2019

The History Behind Baseball’s Weirdest Pitch

The improbable success of the curveball.
by Tyler Kepner via Literary Hub on April 24, 2019

Her Ancestors Fled to Mexico to Escape Slavery 170 Years Ago. She Still Sings in English.

The oldest living member of the Mascogos still sings songs in a language she doesn't understand.
by Kevin Sieff via Washington Post on April 12, 2019
Illustration of birth certificate and coin necklace

Ghosts In My Blood

Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.
by Regina Bradley via Southern Cultures on April 9, 2019
Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

The Day Martin Luther King Jr. Died

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.
by Jonathan Capehart via Washington Post on April 4, 2019

A Social—and Personal—History of Silence

Its meaning can change over time, and over the course of a life.
by Jane Brox via The New Yorker on April 3, 2019

The Keeper of the Secret

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.
by Stephanie McCrummen via Washington Post on March 30, 2019
Winona Ryder as Veronica in The Heathers.

“Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy

The 1989 cult classic ushered in a darker, weirder, more experimental era for teen movies.
by Naomi Fry via The New Yorker on March 27, 2019
Veteran who was exposed to nuclear radiation.

The Atomic Soldiers

How the U.S. government used veterans as atomic guinea pigs.
by Morgan Knibbe via New York Times Op-Docs on February 12, 2019
Painting depicting Cherokee people riding, walking, and driving wagons on the Trail of Tears.

“Work of Barbarity”: An Eyewitness Account of the Trail of Tears

A missionary's account of the atrocities perpetrated against Cherokees shows that the Trail of Tears is no laughing matter.
by Evan Jones, Matthew Dessem via Slate on February 10, 2019

The Experience That Taught Me Blackface and Klan Hoods Are Forms of Racial Terror

A childhood lesson in the backseat of a 1973 Mustang.
by Tanisha C. Ford via Tanisha C. Ford on February 6, 2019

Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard

On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Harvard students and faculty reflect on being the first users of Earth's largest social network.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on February 4, 2019

Lightning Struck

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.
by Max Blau via The Bitter Southerner on January 22, 2019
American Indian woman and children.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

The History Before Us

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?
by Jessica Jacobs via Guernica on January 21, 2019

How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”
by Brooke Obie via Shadow and Act on December 14, 2018

Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened

In uncovering the blackness of Peoples Temple, I began to better understand my community and the need to belong.
by Jamilah King via Mother Jones on November 16, 2018
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