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William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker
How a story told by a fugitive from slavery became a parable of American banking gone bad.
by
Ross Bullen
via
The Public Domain Review
on
November 24, 2021
A Prophet and a President
Why black biography matters.
by
David Levering Lewis
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The American Scholar
on
October 21, 2021
Students Need To Learn About The Haters and The Helpers of Our History
We do our children no favors if we only feed them a steady diet of fairy tales that sidestep life’s complexities.
by
Michele Norris
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Washington Post
on
July 23, 2021
Autobiography with Scholarly Trimmings
Even as they tell others’ stories, historians often write about their own lives.
by
Zachary M. Schrag
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Perspectives on History
on
July 13, 2021
Lucy Brewer and the Making of a Female Marine
An account of the first female to serve in the U.S. Navy.
by
Maria Connors
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Past Is Present
on
June 8, 2021
The Strange Revival of Mabel Dodge Luhan
The memoirist is at the center of two new, very different books: a biography of D. H. Lawrence and a novel by Rachel Cusk. Has she been rescued or reduced?
by
Rebecca Panovka
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The New Yorker
on
June 2, 2021
A Quest for the True Identity of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim Man Enslaved in the Carolinas
Omar ibn Said was captured in Senegal at 37 and enslaved in Charleston. A devout Muslim, he later converted to the Christian faith of his enslavers. Or did he?
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Jennifer Berry Hawes
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Post and Courier
on
May 27, 2021
The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized
An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.
by
Jane Mayer
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The New Yorker
on
May 6, 2021
What Do We Want in a First Lady?
Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.
by
Amy Davidson Sorkin
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The New Yorker
on
April 19, 2021
A Posthumous Life
Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.
by
Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
on
April 8, 2021
“I Assumed It Was Urgent”: Helen Hurd’s Story
The story of medical sterilization, which in many cases was disguised as a routine appendectomy surgery.
by
Caryn Radick
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Nursing Clio
on
March 16, 2021
The Limits of Barack Obama’s Idealism
“A Promised Land” tells of a country that needed a savior.
by
Thomas Meaney
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The New Republic
on
February 15, 2021
What Henry Adams Understood About History’s Breaking Points
He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.
by
Dan Chiasson
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The New Yorker
on
November 30, 2020
The Douglass Republic
How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.
by
Jabari Asim
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The New Republic
on
August 14, 2020
The Argument of “Afropessimism”
Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.
by
Vinson Cunningham
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The New Yorker
on
July 13, 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
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Literary Hub
on
May 14, 2020
Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)
Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents and Daniel Boone.
by
Adam Green
via
The Public Domain Review
on
September 10, 2019
Moral Courage and the Civil War
Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.
by
Elizabeth D. Samet
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The American Scholar
on
September 3, 2019
'Reality Bites' Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony
The 1994 studio film was written by a 20-something who mined her own life to tell the story of a generation that disdained 'selling out.'
by
Soraya Roberts
via
The Atlantic
on
March 6, 2019
The Explosive Chapter Left Out of Malcolm X’s Autobiography
Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.
by
Zaheer Ali
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Missy Sullivan
via
HISTORY
on
March 5, 2019
One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North
Bridgett M. Davis tracks her mother's journey from Nashville to Detroit.
by
Bridgett M. Davis
via
Literary Hub
on
January 30, 2019
Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship
What happens when we find out writers aren't who they said they were.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
December 10, 2018
The Missing Malcolm X
Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.
by
Garrett Felber
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Boston Review
on
November 28, 2018
Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory
On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.
by
David W. Blight
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Martha Hodes
via
Public Books
on
November 26, 2018
The Double Battle
A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.
by
Eric Foner
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The Nation
on
October 24, 2018
Catching Up to Pauli Murray
From today's vantage, the remarkable achievements of the writer and social justice activist are finally coming into focus.
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 5, 2018
Ante Up: The Scales of Power Seen Through Norman Podhoretz’s Eyes
In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.
by
Frank Guan
via
The Point
on
September 29, 2018
We Really Still Need Howard Zinn
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.
by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
via
Literary Hub
on
September 27, 2018
Breaking News
Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
by
Michael Massing
via
The Nation
on
September 27, 2018
My Fellow Prisoners
The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.
by
George Blaustein
via
n+1
on
August 29, 2018
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