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Guess Which Brand Popularized Pecan Pie
This delicious sticky treat has quite the American origin story.
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Rossi Anastopoulo
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Slate
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November 24, 2022
The Pioneering Black Sci-Fi Writer Behind the Original Wakanda
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins invented the setting that eventually became Wakanda in her science fiction, but her name isn't widely known.
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Alison Lanier
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Ms. Magazine
on
November 23, 2022
Choice Reading
Nineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.
by
Denise Gigante
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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November 21, 2022
18th- and 19th-Century Americans of All Races, Classes & Genders Looked to the Ancient Mediterranean for Inspiration
In a new land, the ancient past held special meaning.
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Sean P. Burrus
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The Conversation
on
November 21, 2022
The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. Butler
The story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.
by
E. Alex Jung
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Vulture
on
November 21, 2022
Liquor on Sundays
A new book sets out to discover how Americans became such creatures of the seven-day week.
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Anthony Grafton
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London Review of Books
on
November 17, 2022
Walkers and Lone Rangers: How Pop Culture Shaped the Texas Rangers Mythology
Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.
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Sean O'Neal
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Texas Monthly
on
November 16, 2022
A Fresh Look at the History of Pecan Pie
The pecan pie as we know it is very much a twentieth-century creation, so if you ever see a recipe entitled “Old South Pecan Pie,” you know it’s bogus.
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Rebecca Sharpless
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UNC Press Blog
on
November 16, 2022
The Age of Planetary Revolution: Remembering the Future in Science Fiction
Nothing dates our vision of the future like how we remember the past.
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Carl Abbott
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Perspectives on History
on
November 14, 2022
Photographer Uses AI to Imagine What Historical Icons Would Look Like Today
Some of the stars depicted in Yesiltas’ portraits are instantly recognizable as modern-day sirens, while others are less obvious at first glance.
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Pesala Bandara
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PetaPixel
on
November 14, 2022
A Library by the Book
For its ubiquity and richness, the American library building stands as a reflection of the country’s enlightened calling.
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James Panero
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The New Criterion
on
November 11, 2022
Lydia Maria Child Taught Americans to Make Do With Less
A popular writer’s 1829 self-help book ‘The Frugal Housewife’ was based on the same democratic principles that made her a champion of the abolitionist cause.
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Lydia Moland
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The Wall Street Journal
on
November 10, 2022
How the Billboard Hot 100 Lost Interest in the Key Change
One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?
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Chris Dalla Riva
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Tedium
on
November 9, 2022
When Christmas Started Creeping
Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?
by
Bill Black
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Contingent
on
November 8, 2022
On "Harold of the Purple Crayon" and the Value of an Imaginative Journey
Considering the lessons and history of Crockett Johnson’s classic.
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Ross Ellenhorn
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Literary Hub
on
November 8, 2022
partner
‘A League of Their Own’ Chronicles Life for LGBTQ Women in the 1940s
Even at a time of repression, these women found ways to create a culture and life for themselves.
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Lauren Gutterman
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Made By History
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November 2, 2022
Why Do Women Want?: Edith Wharton’s Present Tense
"The Custom of the Country" and its unique relationship with ideas of feminism and the culture of the early 20th century elite.
by
Sarah Blackwood
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The Paris Review
on
November 1, 2022
Reading Disability History Back into American Girl
The author's personal history with the dolls, and an argument for American Girl to make a new doll with a disability.
by
Marissa Spear
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Nursing Clio
on
November 1, 2022
Colonialism Birthed the Zombie Movie
The first feature-length zombie movie emerged from Haitians’ longstanding association of the living dead with slavery and exploited labor.
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Livia Gershon
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Jennifer Fay
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JSTOR Daily
on
October 31, 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis Was an SOB Right to the End
Jerry Lee Lewis was known as the Killer, and it wasn’t a casual sobriquet.
by
Bill Wyman
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Vulture
on
October 28, 2022
Gordon Parks' View of America Across Three Decades
Two new books and one expanded edition of Gordon Parks' photographs look at the work of the photographer from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
by
Robert E. Gerhardt
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Blind
on
October 28, 2022
Halloween: A Mystic and Eerie Significance
Despite the prevalence of tricks and spooky spirits in earlier years, the American commercial holiday didn’t develop until the middle of the twentieth century.
by
Betsy Golden Kellem
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JSTOR Daily
on
October 26, 2022
The Creepy Clown Emerged from the Crass and Bawdy Circuses of the 19th Century
Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
by
Madeline Steiner
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The Conversation
on
October 25, 2022
Sex, Race, and Gender in Bounce Music Culture
Bounce is defined by its “up-tempo, call-and-response, heavy base, ass-shaking music” and by its transgressively liberatory power.
by
Hettie Williams
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Black Perspectives
on
October 25, 2022
On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo
The banjo did not exist before it was created by the hands of enslaved people in the New World.
by
Kristina R. Gaddy
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Literary Hub
on
October 24, 2022
American as Apple Pie
How marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.
by
Rachael Kay Albers
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JSTOR Daily
on
October 19, 2022
See the Stunning Lobby Cards Keeping Silent Movies Alive
Thanks to a collector, thousands of lobby cards from the silent film era will soon be digitized.
by
Ella Feldman
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Smithsonian
on
October 19, 2022
partner
Today’s Book Bans Echo a Panic Against Comic Books in the 1950s
When a climate of fear exists, people don’t scrutinize the evidence behind claims about children’s reading material.
by
Jeremy C. Young
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Made By History
on
October 17, 2022
The Devil, the Delta, and the City
In search of the mythical blues—and their real urban origins.
by
Alan Pell Crawford
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Modern Age
on
October 17, 2022
I've Got Those Old Talking-Blues Blues Again
The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.
by
William Hogeland
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Hogeland's Bad History
on
October 13, 2022
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