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Broadway New York 1893

Perilous Proceedings

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.
by David Gibson via Library of Congress on June 29, 2020
From left, actors Bernnadette Stanis, John Amos and Ja'Net Dubois accept the Impact Award for “Good Times” at the 2006 TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Television Is Already Moving to Address Racism — But Will the Effort Last?

Past network efforts to address racism faded as uprisings stopped dominating headlines.
by Kate L. Flach via Made By History on June 11, 2020

These Newly Digitized Military Maps Explore the World of George III

The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell.
by Sara Georgini via Smithsonian on February 20, 2020
Nicholas Black Elk
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Wounded Knee and the Myth of the Vanished Indian

The story of the 1890 massacre was often about the end of Native American resistance to US expansion. But that’s not how everyone told it.
by Livia Gershon, Lisa Tatonetti via JSTOR Daily on February 17, 2020

Rules of Engagement

The value of shame in objects.
by Wendy S. Walters via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 5, 2020
Photographs of Lilian Smith and Frank Yerby.

Frank Yerby and Lillian Smith: Challenging the Myths of Whiteness

Both Southerners. Both all but forgotten. Both, in their own ways, questioned the social constructions of race and white supremacy in their writings.
by Matthew Teutsch via The Bitter Southerner on January 9, 2020
Workers on a pineapple plantation.

In Hawaiʻi, Plantation Tourism Tastes Like Pineapple

The Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands—something that continues today in the tourism industry.
by Mallory Huard via Edge Effects on November 12, 2019
Big Bird on the set of 'Sesame Street'

The Unmistakable Black Roots of 'Sesame Street'

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on November 7, 2019

Who Was Tank Kee?

He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.
by Christopher Decou via Contingent on October 28, 2019
Illustration of WWI soldiers hiking thorugh a field; the painting uses light pastel colors and surrounds the soldiers with mist

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.
by Rebecca Onion via Literary Hub on October 21, 2019
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How Oscar Micheaux Challenged the Racism of Early Hollywood

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like "The Birth of a Nation."
by Anna Siomopoulos, Kristin Hunt, Richard Grupenhoff via JSTOR Daily on October 3, 2019
Chester Harding

Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)

Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents and Daniel Boone.
by Adam Green via The Public Domain Review on September 10, 2019
Joe Buck and Rizzo walking on a bridge.

How John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top

It became the first and only X-rated movie to win a best picture Oscar.
by Koraljka Suton via Cinephilia & Beyond on August 4, 2019

Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future

If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor.
by Fred Scharmen via CityLab on May 13, 2019

An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.
by Robert D. Bland via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 10, 2019

“There Is a Scottsboro in Every Country”

A review of two new books that illuminate a range of still unrealized visions of anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism.
by Amanda Reid via Public Books on April 11, 2019
“Two Guns Arikara” (1974-77) painting of a Native American man, by T. C. Cannon.

T. C. Cannon’s Blazing Promise

The painter, who died at the age of thirty-one, vivified his Native American heritage with inspirations from modern art.
by Peter Schjeldahl via The New Yorker on April 6, 2019
Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019
Valentina Tereshkova in space, painted
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Valentina Tereshkova and the American Imagination

Remembering the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and how she challenged American stereotypes.
by Robert L. Griswold, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 13, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh Goes to the Movies

A film scholar reflects on the image of masculinity depicted in "Grease 2," released the same summer of Kavanaugh's alleged assault.
by Marsha Gordon via The Conversation on October 2, 2018
Elvis Presley performing to a crowd of fans reaching toward him

How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll

Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.
by David Hajdu via Public Books on June 21, 2018

America’s First Female Mapmaker

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.
by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 18, 2018
"Rosie the Riveter" poster, depicting white woman wearing red bandanna and blue shirt flexing arm and saying "We Can Do It!"

How One 'Rosie the Riveter' Poster Won Out Over all the Others

During the war, few Americans actually saw the 'Rosie the Riveter' poster that's become a cultural icon.
by Sarah Myers via The Conversation on May 25, 2018

Retiring Chief Wahoo

Detailing the history and the controversy behind an iconic baseball mascot.
by Scott Longert via We're History on April 6, 2018
Illustration of enslaved persons singing and dancing

Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.
by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 2018
Charles Dickens writing at his table, 1858.

Charles Dickens, America, & The Civil War

What might Charles Dickens have thought about the American Civil War and the American struggle for abolition and social reforms?
by Sarah Kay Bierle via Emerging Civil War on February 23, 2018
A painting of George Washington.
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What Is Presidents’ Day Actually About?

For most of American history, Washington's Birthday was a really big deal, but that’s changed a lot since the middle of the twentieth century.
by Livia Gershon, Barry Schwartz via JSTOR Daily on February 3, 2018
Cover of sheet music for Miss Brown's Cake Walk, featuring a drawing of minstrel dancers in fancy attire.

Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Lakisha Odlum via Digital Public Library of America on September 18, 2017

The TV That Created Donald Trump

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.
by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017
Advertisement for Art War Relief during the First World War

Edith Magonigle and the Art War Relief

Called Art War Relief, members from a group of art societies formed a coalition under the auspices of the American Red Cross.
by Tal Nadan via The New York Public Library on July 20, 2017
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