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A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang
In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.
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Steven Hoelscher
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Smithsonian Magazine
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July 1, 2019
A Gay First Lady? Yes, We’ve Already Had One, and Here Are Her Love Letters.
Rose Cleveland declared her passion for the woman she had a relationship with spanning three decades in letter after letter.
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Gillian Brockell
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Retropolis
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June 20, 2019
“Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers
Some kind, some weird, some unbelievably harsh.
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Emily Temple
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Literary Hub
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June 19, 2019
The Light of Battle Was in Their Eyes
The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day.
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Meredith Hindley
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Humanities
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June 5, 2019
A WWII Combat Photographer's Long-Lost Images of D-Day in NYC
News of the invasion spread quickly that morning. Phil Stern captured a city still processing the news—but his photos were lost for decades.
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Liesl Bradner
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TIME
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June 5, 2019
New York’s First-Time Women Voters
A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
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Jessica Kirzane
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Miriam Karpilove
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Jewish Currents
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June 4, 2019
These Photo Albums Offer a Rare Glimpse of 19th-Century Boston’s Black Community
Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.
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Dana Lorch
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Smithsonian Magazine
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May 29, 2019
The Old Menus of New Chinatown
Retracing the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus as a guide.
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Aric Allen
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Aricallen.com
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May 28, 2019
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What the Loss of the New York Police Museum Means for Criminal-Justice Reform
Without historical records, we lose key insights into how law enforcement works — and how it fails.
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Matthew Guariglia
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Made By History
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May 22, 2019
Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia
A conversation with the curator of an exhibit about the oft-overlooked lives of women in early colonial Virginia.
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Katherine Egner Gruber
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Philippe Halbert
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The Junto
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May 20, 2019
New Online: The AP Washington Bureau, 1915-1930
Wire service reporting from the capital provided much of the nation with coverage of federal government and politics.
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Ryan Reft
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Neely Tucker
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Library of Congress Blog
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May 16, 2019
Secret Archives Show US Helped Argentine Military Wage ‘Dirty War’ That Killed 30,000
The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the US.
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Rut Diamint
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The Conversation
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May 10, 2019
“Our Moral Obligation:” The Pastors That Counseled in Pre-Roe South Carolina
Before the Roe decision, at least 68 South Carolina clergymen actively counseled women on where they should receive abortions.
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Madeleine Ware
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Nursing Clio
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May 9, 2019
49 Years After Kent State Massacre, New Photos Revealed
Getty Images has released new photos of the Kent State shootings, 49 years after they happened.
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Tara Law
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TIME
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May 7, 2019
Data Overload
How will the historians of the future manage the massive archival data our society has begun to compile on the internet?
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Seth Denbo
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Perspectives on History
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May 7, 2019
‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s TV Show.
What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.
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Holly Otterbein
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Politico Magazine
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May 3, 2019
During the Space Race, Gas Stations Gave Away Free Maps to the Moon
Standard Oil was not about to be left earthbound.
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Kyle Carsten Wyatt
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Atlas Obscura
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May 1, 2019
How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US
Remembering "Hiroshima," the story that changed everything.
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Jeremy Treglown
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Literary Hub
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April 23, 2019
Hate in the Air
Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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April 23, 2019
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The World According to the 1580s
A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.
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Benjamin Breen
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April 17, 2019
A Map of the Internet from May 1973
The modern internet has come a long way.
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Jason Kottke
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kottke.org
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March 28, 2019
Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South
Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Sarah Handley-Cousins
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Diane Miller Sommerville
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Nursing Clio
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March 20, 2019
Spying on Tesla
Looking at a scientist’s FBI file.
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JPat Brown
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Michael Morisy
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B. C. D. Lipton
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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March 20, 2019
The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo
Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.
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Nora Caplan-Bricker
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The New Yorker
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March 11, 2019
The Explosive Chapter Left Out of Malcolm X’s Autobiography
Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.
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Zaheer Ali
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Missy Sullivan
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HISTORY
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March 5, 2019
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How America Thought About Refugees 70 Years Ago
And other gleanings from the 1949 run of the Saturday Evening Post.
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Benjamin Breen
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February 26, 2019
Freedom on the Move
A database of fugitives from American Slavery.
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Freedom on the Move Project
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February 20, 2019
A Lost and Found Portrait Photographer
What remains of Hugh Magnum's work documents how much was shared in common by people who racist laws treated as separate.
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Sarah Blackwood
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The New Yorker
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February 14, 2019
50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969
Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.
by
Alan Taylor
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The Atlantic
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February 13, 2019
“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.
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Evan Jones
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Matthew Dessem
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Slate
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February 10, 2019
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