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The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
by
Marcin Wichary
via
Aresluna
on
February 14, 2025
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How Tinker v. Des Moines Established Students’ Free Speech Rights
“The lesson of the Tinker case is: Speak up. Stand up,” Mary Beth Tinker told us.
via
Retro Report
on
March 13, 2025
Anvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland Marxism
Anvil's popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.
by
Marc Blanc
via
Jacobin
on
February 23, 2025
Done in by Time
A review of Edwin Frank's short list of great 20th century novels.
by
Joseph Epstein
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Lamp Magazine
on
February 14, 2025
James Madison and the Crisis of the New Order
The effort to return American government to republican principles is daunting—but the Founders’ wisdom can serve as a guide.
by
Richard Samuelson
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Law & Liberty
on
March 4, 2025
How White-Collar Criminals Plundered a Brooklyn Neighborhood
How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.
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Kristen Martin
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The Nation
on
March 20, 2025
Before Mahmoud Khalil, There Was Harry Bridges
The U.S. government repeatedly tried to deport the midcentury labor leader over his alleged ties to the Communist Party.
by
Clay Risen
via
The Bulwark
on
March 24, 2025
Did Patrick Henry Really Say ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’?
The Virginia delegate may have spoken those words on March 23, 1775, but some historians doubt it.
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Gregory S. Schneider
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Retropolis
on
March 21, 2025
When the KKK Came to D.C.
Revisiting a 1925 march through the eyes of Black newspapers.
by
Vann R. Newkirk II
via
The Atlantic
on
March 23, 2025
Alien Enemies, Alien Friends, and the Concept of “Allegiance”
With controversy raging over the Alien Enemies Act, how should we understand the concept it invoked?
by
Robert Natelson
via
Law & Liberty
on
March 24, 2025
The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.
by
Adam Hochschild
via
The Nation
on
March 11, 2025
Urban Renewal in Virginia
Urban landscapes and communities all across the state of Virginia still bear the scars of urban renewal.
via
Encyclopedia Virginia
on
September 19, 2024
Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era
White women were especially likely to be owners involved in transactions with enslaved women, where they were listed as owners in nearly 40% of transactions.
by
Benton Wishart
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Trevor D. Logan
via
National Bureau Of Economic Research
on
May 31, 2024
CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection
Agency sought drugs and behavior control techniques to use in “special interrogations” and offensive operations.
by
Michael Evans
via
National Security Archive
on
December 23, 2024
Vanity Fair’s Heyday
I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
by
Bryan Burrough
via
The Yale Review
on
March 14, 2025
“Lynch Law in America”: Annotated
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose January 1900 essay exposed the racist reasons given by mobs for their crimes, argued that lynch law was an American shame.
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Ida B. Wells
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Liz Tracey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
February 21, 2025
No, Native American Citizenship Does Not Support Limits on Birthright Citizenship
This defense misconstrues both the Constitution and the Supreme Court decisions relying on it.
by
Bethany Berger
via
Lawfare
on
March 12, 2025
The Sum of Our Wisdom
We are told that we are a Calvinist culture, which means very little, and none of that good.
by
Marilynne Robinson
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
March 18, 2025
The Education of Elon Musk
The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.
by
David A. Graham
via
The Atlantic
on
March 20, 2025
The Kansas City School That Became a Stop for R. & B. Performers
In the nineteen-sixties, artists such as Bo Diddley and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue played the prom at Pembroke-Country Day.
by
David Dale Owen
via
The New Yorker
on
December 4, 2021
The US Used the Alien Enemies Act to Detain Their Families. Now, They are Watching History Repeat
During World War II, the law justified the imprisonment of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald.
by
Isabela Dias
via
Mother Jones
on
March 18, 2025
The Left-Wing Origins of ‘Deep State’ Theory
Those who wish to restore democratic rule, regardless of political orientation, must take it seriously.
by
Christian Parenti
via
Compact
on
February 28, 2025
How Business Metrics Broke the University
The push to make students into customers incentivizes faculty to seek visibility through controversy rather than through traditional scholarly achievement.
by
Hollis Robbins
via
Compact
on
March 18, 2025
Not So Close
For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are.
by
Ashley C. Barnes
via
Commonweal
on
March 18, 2025
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines.
by
Jay Parini
via
The American Scholar
on
March 3, 2025
No Tariffs Without Representation
Executive trade power has gone too far.
by
Erik Matson
via
Law & Liberty
on
March 19, 2025
The Most Overrated Writer in America
Do people really like Edgar Allen Poe?
by
Naomi Kanakia
via
Woman of Letters
on
March 18, 2025
Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is
A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.
by
Hannah Rosefield
via
The New Republic
on
March 19, 2025
Trump’s Deportations Are a Throwback to Red Scare Politics
The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
Jacobin
on
March 20, 2025
Trump’s Imperial Fantasy: To Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once
Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.
by
Thom Hartmann
via
The New Republic
on
March 17, 2025
Academic Freedom’s Origin Story
While academic freedom is foundational to American higher education today, it is a relatively recent development.
by
Melissa De Witte
via
Stanford Graduate School Of Education
on
May 1, 2023
America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.
by
Zephyr Teachout
via
The Nation
on
March 19, 2025
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Whose Side Are College Administrators On?
There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.
by
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
via
HNN
on
March 19, 2025
Veterans Visit an Idealized West
A gathering of Union veterans in 1883 sheds light on the country's vision of the American West—as a space for reconciliation and a prize won by the war.
by
Cecily Nelson Zander
via
The Civil War Monitor
on
February 3, 2025
The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
by
Thomas Zimmer
via
Democracy Americana
on
December 16, 2024
The Last Time Pro-Palestinian Activists Faced Deportation
Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.
by
David Cole
via
The New Yorker
on
March 18, 2025
In Search of Planet X
The books examine the history of space exploration, from the race to discover Pluto to the idea of space colonization.
by
Priyamvada Natarajan
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 3, 2019
How to Change Policy Without Politicians
As Arkansas politics becomes more conservative, voters are using the ballot for progressive ends.
by
Olivia Paschal
via
The Atlantic
on
May 18, 2019
When Fishermen Harvested Seaweed: The Agar Industry in Beaufort, N.C. during the Second World War
How a small factory off the coast of North Carolina played a role in the war.
by
David Cecelski
via
davidcecelski.com
on
February 12, 2025
Jamestown Is Sinking
In the Tidewater region of Virginia, history is slipping beneath the waves. In the Anthropocene, a complicated past is vanishing.
by
Daegan Miller
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Greta Pratt
via
Places Journal
on
March 15, 2025
The Day the Purpose of College Changed
After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.
by
Dan Berrett
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
January 26, 2025
Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen
Changes to US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.
by
Sadhbh Walshe
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 16, 2018
The Many Guises of Robert Frost
Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.
by
Maggie Doherty
via
The New Yorker
on
February 24, 2025
Squanto: A Native Odyssey
A new biography tells a far more complex, nuanced, and, frankly, interesting historical episode than that depicted in the typical grade-school pageant.
by
Lincoln Paine
via
A Sea Of Words
on
March 4, 2025
Carter and Chile: How Humanitarian was the President?
The 'human rights president' had some tough political decisions to make regarding Augusto Pinochet in 1979.
by
Peter Kornbluh
via
Responsible Statecraft
on
January 10, 2025
How Being “Woke” Lost Its Meaning
How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.
by
Aja Romano
via
Vox
on
October 9, 2020
There’s a Hidden History of US Support for Irish Republicans
The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles.
by
Devin Thomas O’Shea
via
Jacobin
on
March 16, 2025
How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery
On the scholarship and intellectual legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and other academics.
by
Scott Spillman
via
Literary Hub
on
March 10, 2025
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
by
Fintan O’Toole
via
The New Yorker
on
March 10, 2025
An Expanding Vision of America
Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.
by
Nicole Eustace
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 6, 2025
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