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Computers Were Supposed to Be Good

Joy Lisi Rankin’s book on the history of personal computing looks at the technology’s forgotten democratic promise.

by Gillian Terzis via The Nation on January 30, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A hundred years at the edge of empire.

by Stephen Benz via Literary Hub on January 30, 2019

A Brief History of the Past 100 Years, as Told Through the New York Times Archives

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

by Ilia Blinderman, Jan Diehm via The Pudding on December 29, 2018

Military Industrial Sexuality

How a passionate thirty-one-year-old systems analyst and a militant World War II veteran pushed the military to bend toward justice.

by Ryan Reft via Boom California on December 20, 2018

The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.

by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on December 1, 2018

Drawing of "Uncle Sam," a common national personification of the U.S., crouched over a church. He appears to be listening to what is going on inside.

Under God

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

by Jackie Roche via The Nib on November 30, 2018

Lithograph of John Winthrop.

What We Get Wrong About ‘A City on Hill’

And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.

by Daniel T. Rodgers via Made By History on November 13, 2018

When Economists Took Socialism Seriously

If there’s one thing worth taking away from the new White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument.

by Tim Barker via Dissent on October 25, 2018

Henry Kissinger and Otis Pike shaking hands.

How Partisanship and Distrust Leave Congress Vulnerable to Hacking

Congress isn't safe from foreign interference. It never has been.

by KC Johnson via Made By History on October 2, 2018

Teaching the Rank and File

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.

by William S. Cossen via Jacobin on September 24, 2018

Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists on the Olympic podium in 1968.

Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.

by Peter Linebaugh via Boston Review on August 1, 2018

Identification documents and photo of Hans Speier on the cover of "Democracy in Exile."

Killing Democracy to Save It

How an idealistic defense intellectual concluded that democracy is often its own worst enemy.

by John Ganz via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 6, 2018

The White Man, Unburdened

How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.

by Stuart Schrader, Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on July 4, 2018

Making the Movies Un-American

How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.

by Noah Isenberg via The New Republic on July 3, 2018

Ethel Rosenberg hugs her two sons.

An Irrevocable Separation

When the government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the welfare of their two boys was a secondary concern.

by Robert Meeropol via The Marshall Project on July 2, 2018

Chinese premier Zhou Enlai and Indonesian president Sukarno aboard a cruise on the Nile River, Cairo, July 1965.

The Truth About the Killing Fields

A trio of books depict the true narrative of the massacres within Indonesia in 1965.

by Margaret Scott via New York Review of Books on June 28, 2018

Book cover for Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

The Long View: Surveillance, the Internet, and Government Research

A new book says “the Internet was developed as a weapon and remains a weapon today.” Does the charge hold up?

by Eric Gade via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 28, 2018

New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike

On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”

by Sara Blair via Literary Hub on June 13, 2018

Putin and Trump.

The Secret Life of Statutes: A Century of the Trading with the Enemy Act

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

by Benjamin Coates via Modern American History on May 16, 2018

Library card noting a book checked out to Dr. Oppenheimer.

Atomic Bonds

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

by Nadine Zimmerli via Uncommon Sense on May 3, 2018

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

by Sophie Pinkham via The Nation on May 3, 2018

A Tale of Two Hiroshimas

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.

by Kazu Watanabe via Current [The Criterion Collection] on May 3, 2018

Svetlana Stalin being photographed

My Secret Summer With Stalin’s Daughter

In 1967, I was in the middle of one of the world’s buzziest stories.

by Grace Kennan Warnecke via Politico Magazine on April 29, 2018

How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science

The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.

by Sharon Weinberger via UnDark on April 20, 2018

The April 1966 cover of “Ramparts," featuring a caricature of Madame Nhu dressed as a Michigan State University cheerleader

The University That Launched a CIA Front Operation in Vietnam

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.

by Eric Scigliano via Politico Magazine on March 25, 2018

Our Nukes, Ourselves

Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town.

by Kelsey D. Atherton via The New Inquiry on March 21, 2018

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

The bestselling guru's ancient wisdom is unmistakably modern – a disturbing symptom of the social malaise he sets out to cure.

by Pankaj Mishra via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Who Does She Stand For?

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on March 5, 2018

Billy Graham, ‘America’s Pastor’?

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.

by Kevin M. Kruse via Made By History on February 22, 2018

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