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The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.
by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014
Family photo.

Where Do Children’s Earliest Memories Go?

Our first three years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age seven. What are we hiding from ourselves?
by Kristin Ohlson via Aeon on July 30, 2014

Reimagining Recreation

How the New Left, urban renewal, safety concerns, and child psychology affected the design of New York playgrounds.
by James Trainor via Cabinet on April 18, 2012
Illustrated cover of the "Secret Garden"

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.
by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina via The Public Domain Review on March 8, 2011
Painting of children with sticks and hoops. By Ethel Spowers, 1936.
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Kidding Around

Stories of American children at work and play.
Joseph Jefferson, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1904

Who Was the Most Famous of All?

The tale of the long forgotten Joseph Jefferson, who revolutionized character acting in 19th century American theater.
by Robert Gottlieb via New York Review of Books on October 22, 2009
Image of a father and child walking on a beach.

Mythologizing Fatherhood

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.
by Ralph LaRossa via National Council On Family Relations on March 1, 2009
Milton Bradley surrounded by colorful design

The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 14, 2007

Who Owns Anne Frank?

The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?
by Cynthia Ozick via The New Yorker on September 28, 1997
Screen capture of Fred Rogers at a desk with microphones, testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications.

Fred Rogers Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

The young Mr. Rogers brings down the house in his 1969 effort to save public broadcasting from the chopping block.
by U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation via YouTube on May 1, 1969
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
Industrial plant releasing thick smoke into the sky.

Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

On the intersection of environmental contamination and violence in the Pacific Northwest.
by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on June 10, 2025
Illustration of lady liberty balancing housework and child care, holding cash instead of a torch.

The World That ‘Wages for Housework’ Wanted

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.
by Lily Meyer via The Atlantic on May 23, 2025
Malcolm X holding his daughter Qubilah.

Malcolm X the Girl Dad Was Hidden in Plain Sight

On the other side of the hardened activist was a man who stirred his coffee with his daughter's finger and told her it made it sweet.
by Mark Anthony Neal via Level Magazine on May 19, 2025
RFK Jr speaking at a podium.

RFK’s Ideas About “Wellness Farms” for Young People Are Eugenic and Unconstitutional

RFK’s call for “wellness farms” revives a grim legacy of forced labor, racial injustice, and eugenics disguised as mental health reform.
by Kylie Smith via Nursing Clio on May 8, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The History of Why Raw Milk Regulation is Necessary

In the 19th century, tens of thousands of babies died every year of gastroenteritis.
by Carla Cevasco via Made By History on April 29, 2025
Ella Jenkins at a School Assembly Service performance, c. 1962.

Ella Jenkins and Sonic Civil Rights Pedagogy

She translated Black freedom movements' ideals into forms that children could enjoy and grasp, nurturing their political consciousness through music-making.
by Gayle F. Wald via Black Perspectives on April 25, 2025
Indigenous girl among a line of U.S. peace commissioners.

American History Needs More Names

Identifying Sophie Mousseau from a Civil War-Era photo helps us understand our complex past.
by Martha A. Sandweiss via Zócalo Public Square on April 21, 2025
A woman holding her head in distress, and a naked woman sitting on an illustration of a toy car pulled by string.

Frog-Free

The demystification of pregnancy.
by Erin Maglaque via London Review of Books on April 17, 2025
Ryan White

The True Story of an Indiana Teen Barred From School Over His AIDS Diagnosis

Ryan White changed perceptions of the disease in the United States.
by Paul M. Renfro via Teen Vogue on April 8, 2025
Dave Edmonston

The Measles Vaccine Came From His Body. He Went Anti-vax. Not Anymore.

As a boy, David Edmonston was the source of today’s measles vaccine. Now he regrets vaccine doubts.
by Marc Fischer via Washington Post on March 12, 2025
Eve Ewing, and the cover of her book "Original Sins."

How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.
by Naomi Elias, Eve L. Ewing via The Nation on March 4, 2025
A family of formerly enslaved people outside their house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1862–1865.

The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.
by Joshua D. Rothman via The New Republic on February 26, 2025
A young boy stares at the camera while members of the Black Panther Party distribute free clothing to the public.
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The Black Panther Party's Under-Appreciated Legacy of Love

The Black Panther Party illustrated how communal love can be a powerful agent for change and empowerment.
by Mickell Carter via Made By History on February 19, 2025
A drawing of Confederate soldiers on horseback violently forcing Black people to walk south.

After Confederate Forces Took Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families

Confederates kidnapped free Black people to sell into slavery. After the war, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones.
by Robert K. D. Colby via Smithsonian on February 6, 2025

I Pledge . . . Allegiance?

American law says schools must honor the Pledge of Allegiance. Schools may have other plans.
by Maggie Phillips via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on February 4, 2025
Three identical pictures of the explosion of an atomic bomb with different coloring.

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

On Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of early science-fiction.
by Dorian Lynskey via Literary Hub on January 28, 2025
Pedestrians, buggies, and a streetcar in a Los Angeles intersection in 1910.

LA’s Traffic Ordinance Went Into Effect 100 Years Ago. It Changed Streets Across America.

The Ordinance, which prioritized cars on the city’s roadways, quickly became the template for the country.
by Alison Sant via Next City on January 24, 2025
Chinese workers standing in the streets.

The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.
by Jane C. Hu via The New Yorker on January 23, 2025
A medieval drawing of a stork.
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Exit, Pursued by a Stork

When the 1930 Hays Code banned pregnancy in film, birds took over the business of birth.
by Victoria Sturtevant via HNN on December 17, 2024
Collage of The Golden Girls, a suitcase, a golf ball, viagra pills, and a Welcome to Florida sign.

How Old Age Was Reborn

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on November 25, 2024
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