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Rat Race

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

by Dylan Gottlieb via Public Seminar on February 15, 2018

How Country Music Went Conservative

Country music is assumed to be the soundtrack of the Republican Party. But it wasn't always that way.

by On The Media via WNYC on October 6, 2017

Playing Indian

How a fight over Native American symbolism in Oregon brought to light the conflict at America's core.

by Alex Ronan via The Outline on September 26, 2017

Two Papasan chairs

Tracing the Elusive History of Pier 1's Ubiquitous 'Papasan' Chair

The bowl-shaped seat's conflicted heritage incorporates the Vietnam War.

by John Kelly via Atlas Obscura on July 17, 2017

A painting of Bob Dylan playing his guitar.

Think Twice

Unreleased tracks show an alternate Dylan: not the folky bard of the standard biographies, but the hippest young blues singer in Greenwich Village.

by Elijah Wald via Oxford American on December 13, 2016

Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock.

The Beautiful Sounds of Jimi Hendrix

“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations...to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”

by Adam Shatz via New York Review of Books on January 9, 2014

Old abandoned cabin in field.

Creaky Boards and Cobwebs

The history of haunted houses in the movies.

via BackStory on June 7, 2013

Photo of a newspaper referring to Jewish riots in the New York Times

The Festive Meal

There once was a time when Yom Kippur was a time to eat, drink, and be merry.

by Eddy Portnoy via Tablet on September 24, 2009

"Sunrise at Northport Harbor" painting by Arthur Dove.

Unpopular Front

American art and the Cold War.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on October 9, 2005

Inez Milholland with her dog.

Let Us Mate

Proposal advice from Inez Milholland, originally published in the Chicago Day Book, 1916.

via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 3, 1916

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