Partner
Argument
The Way to Fight Inflation Without Rising Interest Rates and a Recession
History shows that targeted price caps work when accompanied by a public campaign.
Made by History
Vignette
In the 1880s, D.C.’s Doctors Argued About Malaria and Its Cause
Malaria — literally, if not scientifically, "bad air" — once claimed Washingtonians by the score. So why did some doctors believe it wasn't real?
Washington Post
Biography
Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball
Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.
Black Perspectives
Profile
The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters
How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.
Longreads
Origin Story
Machine Soul
A history of techno.
Hyperreal Music Archive
Explainer
The Better Roe: The Case of Struck v. Secretary of Defense
When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.
Perspectives on History
Antecedent
Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville
Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?
The Atlantic