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Ye Olde Morality-Enforcement Brigades

The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.
by Matthew Wills, Bryan D. Palmer via JSTOR Daily on May 20, 2020

What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?

Despite calling himself a feminist, the author of the Foundation stories was a serial harasser.
by Jay Gabler via Literary Hub on May 14, 2020
Victoria Woodhull speaks as the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives receives a group of female suffragists, January 11, 1871

The Scandalous and Pioneering Victoria Woodhull

The first woman to run for president was infamous in her day.
by John Strausbaugh via National Review on February 8, 2020
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Explaining the Bond Between Trump and White Evangelicals

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.
by Matthew Avery Sutton via Made By History on November 21, 2019

Aaron Burr — Villain of ‘Hamilton’ — Had a Secret Family of Color, New Research Shows

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.
by Hannah Natanson via Retropolis on August 24, 2019
Man wearing a red Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses rides a big yellow motorcycle.

How Feminists Invented the Male Midlife Crisis

Because most tales and treatises about this near-cliché of midlife crisis center on men, you might be misled to think they have nothing to do with women’s lives.
by Susanne Schmidt via Zócalo Public Square on June 1, 2018

The Hidden History of Anna Murray Douglass

Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Anna made his work possible.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on March 5, 2018
Alexander Hamilton

The Many Alexander Hamiltons

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.
by Joanne B. Freeman via Humanities on January 1, 2018
Aerial view of identical-looking houses in suburbs

Welcome to Disturbia

Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.
by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Curbed on May 25, 2016

The Divorce Colony

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.
by April White via The Atavist on December 8, 2015
Caricature of Martin Luther King's head

The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on April 11, 2002

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