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The Congressman Who ‘Embellished’ His Résumé Long Before George Santos
In the 1950's, Rep. Douglas Stringfellow was a promising young congressman with an incredible World War II story. Then the truth came out.
by
Gillian Brockell
via
Retropolis
on
December 29, 2022
Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.
by
Rogé Karma
via
The Atlantic
on
November 25, 2023
How the NYPD Attempted to Navigate Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in the Early 20th Century
One of the biggest challenges for the NYPD, especially in the years following the turn of the twentieth century, was policing the newcomer immigrants.
by
Matthew Guariglia
via
Literary Hub
on
November 17, 2023
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary
The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy.
by
Peter Kornbluh
,
Tom Blanton
,
William Burr
via
National Security Archive
on
November 29, 2023
From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World
The transformation of the environmental movement.
by
Christopher Caldwell
via
Claremont Review of Books
on
November 1, 2019
Instagram's Aids Memorial: ‘History Does Not Record Itself’
The Instagram feed where friends and family post tributes to loved ones who died of Aids-related illnesses has become an extraordinary compendium of lost lives.
by
Kate Kellaway
via
The Guardian
on
November 4, 2018
The Scientist Who Lost America's First Climate War
The explorer John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment of the West.
by
John F. Ross
via
The Atlantic
on
September 10, 2018
Revisiting New York’s Historic Abortion Law in “Deciding Vote”
Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions.
by
Robert Lyons
,
Jeremy Workman
,
Linnea Feldman Emison
via
The New Yorker
on
November 29, 2023
A Brief History of the US-Israel 'Special Relationship'
A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.
by
Fayez Hammad
via
The Conversation
on
November 29, 2023
Kissinger's Bombings Likely Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Cambodians and Set Path for Khmer Rouge
A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
by
Sophal Ear
via
The Conversation
on
November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.
by
Spencer Ackerman
via
Rolling Stone
on
November 30, 2023
All Dolled Up
How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.
by
Jayne Ross
via
The American Scholar
on
November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped World Affairs Under Two Presidents, Dies at 100
He was the only person ever to be national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He was also the target of relentless critics.
by
Thomas W. Lippman
via
Washington Post
on
November 30, 2023
Many Revolutions
The internet has expanded how we understand the possibilities of the trans experience.
by
Jamie Lauren Keiles
,
Avery Dame-Griff
via
The Baffler
on
July 10, 2023
Bad Facts, Bad Law
In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.
by
Duncan Hosie
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 25, 2023
A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger
For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
November 30, 2023
The Real History Behind Netflix's 'Rustin' Movie
A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.
by
Zachary Clary
via
Smithsonian
on
November 2, 2023
The History of Equality: It’s Complicated
The strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism.
by
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
,
Darrin M. McMahon
via
The Nation
on
November 16, 2023
Big Publishing Killed the Author
How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
via
The New Republic
on
November 15, 2023
partner
The US Propaganda Machine of World War I
As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Nick Fischer
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 17, 2023
partner
The Surveillance of Immigrants Remade American Policing
Modern surveillance policing is rooted in approaches adopted a century ago.
by
Matthew Guariglia
via
Made by History
on
November 21, 2023
After Melville
In every generation, writers and readers find new ways to plumb the depths of Herman Melville and his work.
by
Andrew Schenker
via
The Baffler
on
November 22, 2023
Policing Unpolicable Space: The Mulberry Bend
Sanitation reformers confront a neighborhood seemingly immune to state intervention.
by
Matthew Guariglia
via
The Metropole
on
May 10, 2018
The Lost Savannas of Arizona
Until about 100 years ago, grasses up to two feet high blanketed swaths of the Sonoran Desert.
by
David E. Brown
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
November 15, 2014
How the Ice Age Shaped New York
Long ago, the region lay under an ice sheet thousands of feet thick. It ended abruptly in what are now the boroughs, leaving the city with a unique landscape.
by
William J. Broad
via
New York Times
on
June 5, 2018
partner
A History of Garbage
The history of garbage dumps is the history of America.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Sarah Hill
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 10, 2023
Home on the (Firing) Range: Gunfight Reenactments, “Old West” Competitive Shooting, and the Myth of Authenticity
Reenactments of the frontier west, complete with cowboy shootouts on main streets, reproduce a narrative of history that is widely accepted by millions.
by
Jennifer Tucker
via
The Panorama
on
November 15, 2023
Toward the Next Literary Mafia
Understanding history can help us understand what will be necessary if we’re serious about finally having a more diverse, less exclusionary publishing industry.
by
Josh Lambert
via
Public Books
on
November 21, 2023
Surviving a Wretched State
A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
by
Melvin L. Rogers
,
Neil Roberts
via
Boston Review
on
November 15, 2023
The Conquered General
The back-and-forth life of Confederate James Longstreet.
by
Richard Kreitner
via
Slate
on
November 20, 2023
One of the Biggest U.S. Slave Markets Finally Reckons With Its Past
Natchez, Miss., is beginning to highlight the history of its enslaved people—including at a Black-owned bed and breakfast in former slave quarters.
by
Sarah Enelow-Snyder
via
Retropolis
on
November 26, 2023
The Asbestos Times
Asbestos was a miracle material, virtually impervious to fire. But as we fixed city fires in other ways, we came to learn about its horrific downsides.
by
Mano Majumdar
via
Works In Progress
on
November 15, 2023
Hard Times
The radical art of the Depression years.
by
Rachel Himes
via
The Nation
on
November 27, 2023
What Makes a Prison?
Wherever we find the state engaged in potentially lethal repression, we find prison.
by
Dan Berger
via
Public Books
on
November 1, 2023
The Brief Period, 200 Years Ago, When American Politics Was Full of “Good Feelings”
James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.
by
Erick Trickey
via
Smithsonian
on
July 17, 2017
How a Revolutionary Was Born
Carl Skoglund's early life as a militant worker in Sweden prepared him for leadership in the 1934 Teamster Strikes.
by
Joe Allen
via
Jacobin
on
December 21, 2015
The First Asian American Screenwriter
The woman with the pen name Onoto Watanna had a stunningly productive literary career as a cookbook writer, novelist, and screenwriter.
by
Ben Railton
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
May 9, 2023
A Map of the Disunited States, "as Traitors and Tyrants Would Have It"
The U.S. divided into Pacific, Atlantic, Interior and Confederate States.
by
Frank Jacobs
via
Big Think
on
October 30, 2017
The Times-Picayune's Historical Use of the N-Word
A survey of the New Orleans paper from 1837 to 1914 shows reporters and editors frequent used the racial slur to trivialize Black people in news and commentary.
by
Bala James Baptiste
via
African American Intellectual History Society
on
September 8, 2023
The Persistence of the Saturday Evening Post
When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of communities. There was no sense of nation or unity.
by
Amanda Darrach
via
CJR
on
November 9, 2021
Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth
In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have conjured a long-dead New England Puritan named Patience Worth through a Ouija board.
by
Ed Simon
via
The Public Domain Review
on
September 17, 2014
partner
Translating Corn
To most of the world, “corn” is “maize,” a word that comes from the Taíno mahizwas. Not for British colonists in North America, though.
by
Matthew Wills
,
Betty Fussell
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 22, 2023
Searching for the Perfect Republic
On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.
by
Eric Foner
,
Ted Widmer
via
The Guardian
on
November 15, 2023
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
The New Yorker
on
November 13, 2023
The Death of a Relic Hunter
Bill Erquitt was an unforgettable character among Georgia’s many Civil War enthusiasts. After he died, his secrets came to light.
by
Charles Bethea
via
The New Yorker
on
November 26, 2023
The Missing Politics of Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Blaming corrupt individuals rather than federal Indian policy for the violence and exploitation perpetrated against the Osage Nation misses the mark.
by
Robert Allen Warrior
via
New Lines Magazine
on
October 20, 2023
How Publicity of Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour
On the performance of authenticity and the native stories left to tell.
by
Paul Morton
via
Literary Hub
on
November 20, 2023
“Genocide” Is the Wrong Word
We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.
by
James Robins
via
The New Republic
on
November 21, 2023
Dead Links
Maintaining the internet data of dead people.
by
Tamara Kneese
via
Public Books
on
October 31, 2023
Lumbersexuality and Its Discontents
One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback.
by
Willa Brown
via
The Atlantic
on
December 10, 2014
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