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A motel that burned down in the Pacific Northwest wildfires, with a melted sign seen through orange smoke.
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Scapegoating Antifa for Starting Wildfires Distracts from the Real Causes

Radicals have long been blamed for wildfires in the Pacific Northwest.
by Steven C. Beda via Made By History on September 18, 2020

A Historian of Economic Crisis on the World After COVID-19

A leading expert on financial crises explains how the pandemic is upending economic orthodoxy and raising the stakes of the 2020 election.
by Eric Levitz, Adam Tooze via Intelligencer on August 7, 2020
A pen and ink portrait of Alexander Hamilton as Treasury Secretary.

A New Hamilton Book Looks to Reclaim His Vision for the Left

In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.
by Ryan Grim via The Intercept on August 4, 2020
A graphic featuring a map of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and slavery imagery.

Cancer Alley

A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.
by Monique Michelle Verdin via Southern Cultures on August 1, 2020
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Climate Crisis

The levels of carbon currently in the Earth's atmosphere are unprecedented in the historical and geological records. Still, the climate crisis does have a history.
A photograph of the Chicago River, with telephone wires and the Chicago skyline in the background.

Chicago Was 'Skunk Town' Long Before It Was the Windy City

Chicago has been a skunk haven for centuries.
by Alex Schwartz via Atlas Obscura on July 29, 2020

How Is a Disaster Made?

Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
by Andy Horowitz via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 7, 2020
Book cover of "Republican Reversal."

Conservative Ideology and the Environment

“Big money alone does not fully explain the Republican embrace of the gospel of more.”
by Jonathan H. Adler via Regulation on June 1, 2020

The Revolution Is Only Getting Started

Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.
by Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic on April 5, 2020
Propaganda poster from World War II showing a gloved hand holding a wrench and reading "America's answer!".

The Coronavirus War Economy Will Change the World

When societies shift their economies to a war footing, it doesn’t just help them survive a crisis—it alters them forever.
by Nicholas Mulder via Foreign Policy on March 26, 2020
Painting of the USS Vincennes in Disappointment Bay, Antarctica, during the Wilkes expedition.

The Forgotten American Explorer Who Discovered Huge Parts of Antarctica

It’s been 180 years since Charles Wilkes voyaged to the Antarctic continent and his journey has never been more relevant.
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood via Smithsonian on March 26, 2020
Cups of coffee on a tray photographed from above to look like pills on a foil sheet.

Capitalism’s Favorite Drug

The dark history of how coffee took over the world.
by Michael Pollan via The Atlantic on March 15, 2020
Family photo in front of a mountain range.

A History of Photography in America’s National Parks

From Ansel Adams to Rebecca Norris Webb, we trace the symbiotic relationship that the parks and photography have developed over 150 years.
by Aperture via Aperture on February 20, 2020
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How Oscar Speeches Became So Political

Oscar night has become a platform for stars to pitch political causes.
via Retro Report on February 5, 2020
Artist's rendering of Cahokia

Ancient Poop Reveals What Happened after the Fall of Cahokia

People hunted and raised small farms near the ruins of the ancient city.
by Kiona N. Smith via Ars Technica on January 29, 2020

Racist Housing Practices From The 1930s Linked To Hotter Neighborhoods Today

A study of more than 100 cities shows neighborhoods subjected to discriminatory housing policies nearly a century ago are hotter today than other areas.
by Meg Anderson via NPR on January 14, 2020

The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History

Though significant, the end of the Cold War was not nearly as significant a turning point as President George H.W. Bush suggested it would be in 1990.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on January 13, 2020

Occupy Wall Street’s Legacy Runs Deeper Than You Think

Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.
by Astra Taylor via Teen Vogue on December 17, 2019

Enough Toxic Militarism

Decades of militarization in U.S. foreign policy have fueled violence at every level of American society.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft on December 4, 2019
The cover of Cynthia A. Kierner's "Inventing Disaster," which depicts a shipwreck during a storm.

On Inventing Disaster

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.
by Cynthia Kierner, Anna Faison via UNC Press Blog on November 20, 2019

Reviving the General Strike

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.
by Mark Engler via The Nation on September 1, 2019

A Strange Blight: Rachel Carson’s Forebodings

Reading Silent Spring today, in the hazy reddish glow of climate catastrophe, is both an exhilarating and a melancholy pleasure.
by Meehan Crist via London Review of Books on June 6, 2019
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What the Loss of the New York Police Museum Means for Criminal-Justice Reform

Without historical records, we lose key insights into how law enforcement works — and how it fails.
by Matthew Guariglia via Made By History on May 22, 2019

The Price of Meat

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on May 7, 2019

The Tragedy of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe.
by Matto Mildenberger via Scientific American on April 23, 2019
Row of suburban houses.

Welcome to the Radical Suburbs

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?
by Amanda Kolson Hurley via CityLab on April 9, 2019

How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.
by Alleen Brown via The Intercept on March 23, 2019
Mountains on fire above a town.

Defensible Space

“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.
by Jessie Kindig via Boston Review on October 22, 2018

America's National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched

Montana's emblematic Glacier National Park reveals the impact of human history and culture.
by Adam M. Sowards via Zócalo Public Square on June 11, 2018
Demonstrator outside the U.S. Capitol protesting Scott Pruitt's confirmation.
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Would Firing Scott Pruitt Save the EPA?

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the EPA's history also ends.
by Leif Fredrickson, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, Christopher Sellers via Made By History on May 22, 2018

The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018

For every amusingly wrong prediction in “Toward the Year 2018,” there’s one unnervingly close to the mark.
by Paul Collins via The New Yorker on January 1, 2018
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