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Does John Fetterman’s Openness Signal New Acceptance of Mental Illness?
Some see the reaction to Sen. Fetterman’s announcement as a sign of progress, but that’s less true than you might think.
by
Jonathan Sadowsky
via
Made By History
on
February 21, 2023
Lincoln's Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.
by
Joshua Wolf Shenk
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The Atlantic
on
October 1, 2005
Beyond “Baby Blues”
“Postpartum depression” encompasses various debilitating changes in mood that can occur after giving birth. How did that language come to be?
by
Rachel Louise Moran
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Jess McAllen
via
The Baffler
on
September 30, 2024
The Lost Abortion Plot
Power and choice in the 1930s novel.
by
Julia Cooke
via
The Point
on
June 11, 2024
Hellhounds on His Trail
Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.
by
Michael Hall
via
Texas Monthly
on
April 4, 2023
The Wondrous and Mundane Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Her private writing offers another, more idiosyncratic angle to understand the famed poet.
by
Apoorva Tadepalli
via
The Nation
on
August 3, 2022
Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend
Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”
by
Matthew Redmond
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 7, 2021
The Trouble with Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman authored the beloved short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," but also supported eugenics and nativism.
by
Halle Butler
via
The Paris Review
on
March 11, 2021
Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?
Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
by
James Robins
via
The New Republic
on
February 16, 2021
Bring Back the Nervous Breakdown
It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.
by
Jerry Useem
via
The Atlantic
on
February 8, 2021
The Many Lives of Ketamine
Neuroscientist Bita Moghaddam traces the history of ketamine from the battlefield to the dance floor.
by
Sam Kelly
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Bita Moghaddam
via
The MIT Press Reader
on
October 20, 2020
William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone
A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.
by
Emily Harnett
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
February 4, 2019
Did Abraham Lincoln’s Bromance Alter the Course of American History?
Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln.
by
Charles B. Strozier
via
The Conversation
on
February 15, 2017
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
on
April 28, 2025
RFK Jr.’s 18th-Century Idea About Mental Health
The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.
by
Shayla Love
via
The Atlantic
on
April 4, 2025
William and Henry James
Examining the tumultuous bond between the two brothers.
by
Peter Brooks
via
The Paris Review
on
April 1, 2025
When the Battle's Lost and Won
Shulamith Firestone and the burdens of prophecy.
by
Audrey Wollen
via
Harper’s
on
March 28, 2025
The Secret That Dr. Ruth Knew
She left exactly when we need her most.
by
Stephen Marche
via
The Atlantic
on
July 21, 2024
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To Address the Teen Mental Health Crisis, Look to School Nurses
For more than a century, school nurses have improved public health in schools and beyond.
by
Sherrie Page Guyer
via
Made By History
on
May 8, 2024
The Columbine-Killers Fan Club
A quarter century on, the school shooters’ mythology has propagated a sprawling subculture that idolizes murder and mayhem.
by
Dave Cullen
via
The Atlantic
on
April 19, 2024
‘Live All You Can’
The reflections of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James one finds a characteristically nineteenth-century American sense of resilience and regeneration.
by
John Banville
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 15, 2024
Ivory Perry, the Forgotten Civil Rights Hell-Raiser
Activists are often held up as exemplars of personal morality — but in every social struggle, ordinary people with complex lives rise up as leaders.
by
Devin Thomas O’Shea
via
Jacobin
on
January 15, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’
What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us.
by
Deborah Cohen
via
The Atlantic
on
December 13, 2023
What Betty Friedan Knew
Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.
by
Hermione Hoby
via
The New Republic
on
December 1, 2023
Lou Reed Didn't Want to Be King
Will Hermes's new biography, "Lou Reed: The King of New York," tries—and fails—to pin the rocker down.
by
Hannah Gold
via
The Yale Review
on
October 16, 2023
Is Writing History Like Solving a Mystery?
Why historians like to think of themselves as detectives.
by
Carolyn Eastman
via
Slate
on
May 21, 2023
The Lost Music of Connie Converse
A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.
by
Jeremy Lybarger
via
The New Republic
on
April 24, 2023
What Does It Take to Win?
A new history of American politics examines the past and future of political realignments.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
January 24, 2023
He Wasn’t Like the Other New England “Witches.” His Story Explains a Lot.
The little-told tale of the 1651 trial of Hugh and Mary Parsons.
by
Colin Dickey
via
Slate
on
October 31, 2022
Living in Words
A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.
by
Brenda Wineapple
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 13, 2022
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