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What Americans Thought of WWI

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?
by Livia Gershon, Jennifer D Keene via JSTOR Daily on April 4, 2017
Ernst Borinski

Many Jewish Refugee Professors Found Homes at Historically Black Colleges

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.
by Heather Gilligan via Timeline on March 9, 2017

Anne Frank and Her Family Were Also Denied Entry as Refugees to the U.S.

Historian Richard Breitman tracked the efforts of Anne Frank's family to seek refuge in the US while immigration rules and public attitudes towards immigrants were changing.
by Elahe Izadi via Washington Post on November 24, 2015

The Dark Legacy of Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism

The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper Ford owned, regularly supported and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
by A. James Rudin via Washington Post on October 10, 2014

Is Corned Beef Really Irish?

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal.
by Shaylyn Esposito via Smithsonian Magazine on March 15, 2013
Photo of a newspaper referring to Jewish riots in the New York Times

The Festive Meal

There once was a time when Yom Kippur was a time to eat, drink, and be merry.
by Eddy Portnoy via Tablet on September 24, 2009
Director Edwin Carewe and studio owner Louis B. Mayer on a film set.

Moguls: Did the Jews Invent Hollywood?

Anti-Hollywood rhetoric often echoed anti-Jewish stereotypes. Carr shows how fears of Jewish “control” shaped debates over movies, culture, and politics.
by J. Hoberman via London Review of Books on March 7, 2002
Seymour Hersh

"Cover-Up" Follows Seymour Hersh’s Life Uncovering Secrets

The documentary depicts the kind of maverick journalism we desperately need in our authoritarian times.
by Ed Rampell, Laura Poitras via Jacobin on December 19, 2025

Surrealism Against Fascism

A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us in a new age of genocide?
by Naomi Klein via Equator on November 26, 2025
Garden rows on the cover of "Free Range Religion"

How Religious Food Movements Paved the Way for MAHA

A window into the ways that religious people have participated in and shaped the alternative food movement.
by Adrienne Krone via UNC Press Blog on November 19, 2025
Portrait of Morris Hillquit taken between 1910 and 1915.

The Socialist Who Helped Bring Marx to America

The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as a foundation for a transition to socialism.
by Jonathan Michaels via Jacobin on November 10, 2025
A collage of the American flag.

My Father’s Flag and the Idea of America

Over decades, and through harrowing experiences, my family held on to this bit of cloth as a reminder of everything they believed in—and were running toward.
by Laurence H. Tribe via The Bulwark on November 7, 2025
Collage of photos from a Holocaust survivor.

Uncanny Testimony

As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee via Longreads on September 25, 2025
Collage of photos of Lionel Trilling.

Lionel Trilling and the Limits of Crisis-Thought

Lionel Trilling defends humanism amid crisis culture, warning that obsessing over evil can erode the self and our capacity for moral and creative agency.
by Sam Gee via The Hedgehog Review on September 3, 2025
Silhouettes of a family, three wearing shirts showing matching DNA shirts, and one with different DNA.

The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans have discovered family secrets. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.
by Jennifer Wilson via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025
Fiorello La Guardia

Lessons from La Guardia

Can Zohran Mamdani reshape New York—and national—politics like Mayor Fiorello La Guardia once did?
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jewish Currents on July 18, 2025
Elaine Yoneda superimposed on an American flag.

The Tale of Elai Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

The strange fate of mixed-race families in prisons during World War II.
by Tracy Slater via Literary Hub on July 10, 2025
Abstract painting depicts faces staring at each other from either end of the canvas.

Bridging the Gap

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.
by Michael Kazin via New York Review of Books on June 5, 2025
A hand holds a small rock, with a keffiyeh draping beside it.

The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years

How Israel’s war in Gaza echoes the ancient doctrine of conquest behind Spain’s colonization of Latin America.
by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on May 22, 2025
National Public Housing Museum

At the National Public Housing Museum, an Embattled Idea Finds a Home

Chicago’s latest museum looks to change the narrative around the federally supported housing projects that US cities turned their backs on decades ago.
by Zach Mortice via CityLab on April 25, 2025
Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University

C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in postwar America.
by Sam Chian via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on March 31, 2025
Shulamith Firestone, 1997.

When the Battle's Lost and Won

Shulamith Firestone and the burdens of prophecy.
by Audrey Wollen via Harper’s on March 28, 2025
Screen projecting the logo for "Facing History and Ourselves."

A Progressive Education Nonprofit’s Silence on Gaza

Facing History & Ourselves, known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers by refusing to provide resources about Gaza.
by Alex Kane via Jewish Currents on February 25, 2025
Actor Maurice Chevalier signing his MGM contract

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
by Noah Isenberg via The American Scholar on February 13, 2025
Von Trapp family from "The Sound of Music," (1965).

How the Family From Everyone’s Favorite Musical Actually Came to America

And why so many people remember the tale so differently.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Slate on January 26, 2025
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown."

Timothée Chalamet Does Dylan

Despite Chalamet’s best efforts, "A Complete Unknown" is a cookie-cutter Bob Dylan biopic for a legendary artist who deserves something more interesting.
by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on January 1, 2025
Bookcover of Golden States, of people in bathing suits doing yoga.

How Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand

Dr. Bronner blends spirituality, ethical consumerism, and social activism, aiming to support both community and environmental causes through “All-One” values.
by Eileen Luhr via University Of California Press Blog on October 23, 2024
Portrait of Julius Rosenwald hanging on a wall.

Finding Philanthropy’s Forgotten Founder

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary.
by Darren Walker via The Atlantic on September 9, 2024
Alain Locke.

A Century of Cultural Pluralism

How an unlikely American friendship should inspire diversity, equity, and inclusion.
by David Weinfeld via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on August 21, 2024
Dr. Ruth on “Late Night” with David Letterman in 1985.

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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