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Buying Your Dad a Gift Is Why Father's Day Exists

Buying a necktie for your dad is a stereotypical way to celebrate Father's Day, but it's in keeping with the holiday's history.

by Erin Blakemore via TIME on June 15, 2017

Furniture of the Future: Victorian New York’s Most Visionary Designer Loved His Machines

Barry R. Harwood says of George Hunzinger's work, “No one else was doing this. They didn’t have a name for it yet.”

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on June 7, 2017

Aerial view of identical-looking houses in suburbs

Welcome to Disturbia

Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.

by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Curbed on May 25, 2016

A Brief History of the ATM

How automation changed retail banking.

by Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo via The Atlantic on March 26, 2015

Picture of a truck stop.

Every Which Way but Regulated: The “Free Market” Trucking Industry

No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels thanks to deregulation.

by Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 25, 2014

Southdale mall

How the Cold War Shaped the Design of American Malls

America's first mall was designed as an insular utopia, providing shelter and a controlled environment during uncertain times.

by Marni Epstein-Mervis via Curbed on June 11, 2014

A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash

How garbage physically shaped the development of New York.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Robin Nagle via Collectors Weekly on June 24, 2013

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

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