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The Man Who Broke Politics
Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in it.
The Atlantic
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Here Is a Human Being
The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are.
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Our Genes, Ourselves
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digital history
Electing the House of Representatives
A series of interactive maps showing the results of nearly two centuries of congressional elections.
University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab
book review
An Enduring Shame
A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.
New York Review of Books
retrieval
Sears’s ‘Radical’ Past
How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow.
Washington Post
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How Pocahontas—The Myth and the Slur—Props Up White Supremacy
The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.
Made by History
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Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?
What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present.
Public Seminar
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How We Roasted Donald Duck, Disney's Agent of Imperialism
Why a 47-year old anti-colonialist critique by Chilean dissidents may be newly relevant in the Trump era.
The Guardian
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Mum’s the Word
In the height of the Cold War, the NSA created a series of posters to keep its secrets from leaking. They're both wonderful and creepy.
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Benjamin Breen
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