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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

Belle da Costa Greene at her desk in the Morgan library.

Ambition, Discipline, Nerve

The qualities that enabled Belle da Costa Greene to cross the color line also made her a formidable negotiator and collector for J.P. Morgan’s library.

by Heather O’Donnell via New York Review of Books on April 24, 2025

Illustration from the “Projected Trends” section of Hugh Ferriss’ The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929).

Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism

In the early twentieth century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia.

by Eva Miller via The Public Domain Review on April 9, 2025

Green light in a dark sky.

On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" at 100

Reflections on the literary legacy of a timeless American novel.

by Eleanor Lanahan via Literary Hub on April 7, 2025

Jack Clayton, The Great Gatsby, 1974.

America the Beautiful

One hundred years ago, "The Great Gatsby" was first published. It remains one of the books that almost every literate American has read.

by John Pistelli via The Metropolitan Review on April 7, 2025

Japanese American National Museum Volunteer Barbara Keimi stamps the Ireichō

The Japanese American National Museum Is a Site of Remembrance and Belonging

The Japanese American National Museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations.

by Seph Rodney via Hyperallergic on April 2, 2025

Eliot Noyes standing outside of an IBM building.

The Complicated Legacy of Eliot Noyes

Noyes is not a household name, but his evangelism for the notion of design as a holistic strategy is so pervasive that many now take it for granted.

by Menachem Wecker via Humanities on April 2, 2025

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

‘It Reminds You of a Fascist State’: Smithsonian Institution Braces for Trump Rewrite of US History

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

by David Smith via The Guardian on March 30, 2025

Michael Wiggleworth’s gravestone.

“Physician, Heal Thyself”: Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan, Poet, and Physician

As a clergyman and physician, his medical practice, his chronic illnesses, and his theology were intertwined throughout his life.

by Sarah Pawlicki via All of Us on March 21, 2025

A flooded road.

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, Greta Pratt via Places Journal on March 15, 2025

Robert Frost.

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines.

by Jay Parini via The American Scholar on March 3, 2025

Illustration of Edmond Dédé.

An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on February 24, 2025

Robert Frost.

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

David Bowie singing into a microphone wearing a feather boa and tights.

How Pop Came Out of the Closet

Jon Savage’s “The Secret Public” traces the influence of queer artists on a hostile culture.

by Samuel Clowes Huneke via The New Republic on February 14, 2025

1800s lithograph by George du Maurier showing a chair dance in an art studio.

Done in by Time

A review of Edwin Frank's short list of great 20th century novels.

by Joseph Epstein via Lamp Magazine on February 14, 2025

Elaine May and Walter Matthau sitting on a bench in May’s film A New Leaf.

May Days

A new biography of an elusive comic talent.

by Lizzy Harding via Bookforum on February 11, 2025

Man holding The New Yorker magazine like a telescope.

Onward and Upward

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

by David Remnick via The New Yorker on February 10, 2025

Colorful, brightly lit interior of Washington Cathedral.

Reclaiming Medievalism

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.

by Richard Utz via Medievalists.net on January 14, 2025

The Griffith Observatory, constructed by the Works Progress Administration, on a hill overlooking Los Angeles.

A New Deal for Architecture

What it conveys is quite specific: grandeur, beauty, dynamism, and power.

by David Schaengold via Compact on December 20, 2024

A map dedication from Osgood Carlton "to the select men of the town of Boston" in 1795.

Practical Knowledge and the New Republic

Osgood Carleton and his forgotten 1795 map of Boston.

by John W. Mackey via American Revolutionary Geographies Online on December 17, 2024

The former Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, a 5-story stone building looms above the street.

Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals

The psychiatric hospitals promoted by Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix were quickly overcrowded and underfunded — a failure that haunts us today.

by Robert Kirkbride via Places Journal on December 10, 2024

1940s era tattoo shop

How Do You Preserve Tattoo History When Skin And Memory Fail?

Ed Hardy's historic tattoo parlor is closing. A lot more than that stands to be lost.

by Casey Taylor via Defector on December 6, 2024

A drawing of the inside of a printing mill, depicting workers printing art.

The Midnight World

Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all.

by Michael Chabon via New York Review of Books on November 28, 2024

A stylized painting of the United States military commiting a massacre in Korea.

The Jazz Beats of a Coup

How the US State Department used jazz music for its national security aims.

by Esha Krishnaswamy via Historic.ly on October 3, 2024

Pressed seaweed arranged like a bouquet by William G. Allen and Mary King Allen.

Flowers of the Sea: Marine Specimens at the Anti-Slavery Bazaar

Seaweed and its connection to faith and abolitionism.

by Charline Jao via Commonplace on September 27, 2024

A photograph of the battlefield at Antietam.

A Remote Reality

Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.

by Stephen Budiansky via HNN on September 3, 2024

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

When picture postcards began circulating with a frenzy at the turn of the 20th century, a certain motif proved popular: photographs of people posed with books.

by Melina Moe, Victoria Nebolsin via The Public Domain Review on July 31, 2024

The flags of the USA and the USSR.

Cold War Tones

Two books that remind us that tone and timbre, musical style and sound, matter to history.

by Michael J. Kramer via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on July 28, 2024

Rick Beato on the left, and John Philip Sousa, on the right.

Separated By More Than A Century, Two Musicians Share A Complaint

What happens when the automation of music makes it too easy to create and too easy to consume?

by Mark R. DeLong via 3 Quarks Daily on July 15, 2024

The Phrygian cap derives its name from the ancient region of Phrygia, in what is now Turkey. Also known as a liberty cap, it inspired revolutionaries in both the Colonies and France.

The Paris Games' Mascot, the Olympic Phryge, Boasts a Little-Known Revolutionary Past

The Phrygian cap, also known as the liberty cap, emerged as a potent symbol in 18th-century America and France.

by Greg Daugherty via Smithsonian on June 18, 2024

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