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My Friend Mister Rogers
I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood.
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Tom Junod
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The Atlantic
on
November 12, 2019
How My Kid Lost a Game of ‘Magic’ to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Original Art
Ben Marks on all that came of one interview in 1994.
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Ben Marks
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Collectors Weekly
on
November 7, 2019
partner
What ‘Harriet’ Gets Right About Tubman
In the 1850s, abolitionists, including black women, fought for freedom by force.
by
Kellie Carter Jackson
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Made By History
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November 1, 2019
Whiteout
In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.
by
Kevin Baker
via
Harper’s
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November 1, 2019
The Real Texas
What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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New York Review of Books
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October 24, 2019
partner
Selling Slashers to Teen Girls
The heroines of 1970s and 80s teen horror movies were traditionally feminine, tough, and sexually confident.
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Livia Gershon
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Richard Nowell
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JSTOR Daily
on
September 25, 2019
The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to "Peanuts"
How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.
by
Chris Ware
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The New Yorker
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September 24, 2019
We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong
The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.
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Robin D. G. Kelley
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The Nation
on
September 10, 2019
The Many Lives of Romare Bearden
An abstract expressionist and master of collage, an intellectual and outspoken activist, Bearden evolved as much as his times did.
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Nell Irvin Painter
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The Nation
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August 26, 2019
The World-Class Photography of Ebony and Jet is Priceless History. It's Still Up For Sale.
There's a lot more than money at stake in the impending auction.
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Allison Miller
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Perspectives on History
on
July 9, 2019
How the Camera Introduced Americans to Their Heroines
A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller.
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Meilan Solly
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Smithsonian
on
July 9, 2019
George Washington's Biggest Battle? With his Dentures, Made From Hippo Ivory and Maybe Slaves' Teeth
The British were a pain, to be sure, but what really caused him trouble were his teeth.
by
William Maloney
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The Conversation
on
July 2, 2019
Gump Talk
25 years later, what does Gump mean?
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Contingent
on
July 1, 2019
Watching the End of the World
The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
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Stephen Phelan
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Boston Review
on
June 11, 2019
What Maketh a Man
How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.
by
Tyler Malone
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 10, 2019
Reading the Black Hills Pioneer, Deadwood’s Newspaper
Here’s how the Black Hills Pioneer reported on major events in the HBO series.
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Matthew Dessem
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Slate
on
June 2, 2019
How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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The Atlantic
on
June 2, 2019
How Eudora Welty’s Photography Captured My Grandmother’s History
Natasha Trethewey on experiencing a past not our own.
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Natasha Trethewey
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Literary Hub
on
May 7, 2019
The History of L.A.’s African American Miniature Museum
How and why a Los Angeles folk artist created a vast array of intricate dioramas to form the African American Miniature Museum.
by
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
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Atlas Obscura
on
April 30, 2019
original
The World According to the 1580s
A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.
by
Benjamin Breen
on
April 17, 2019
Signs of Return
Photography as History in the U.S. South.
by
Grace Elizabeth Hale
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Southern Cultures
on
April 1, 2019
An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to 'The Twilight Zone'
His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.
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Jackie Mansky
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Smithsonian
on
April 1, 2019
Mange, Morphine, and Deadly Disease: Medicine and Public Health in Red Dead Redemption 2
The video game offers a realistic portrayal of illness and public health in the 19th-century American West.
by
Leah Richier
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Nursing Clio
on
March 12, 2019
A Lost and Found Portrait Photographer
What remains of Hugh Magnum's work documents how much was shared in common by people who racist laws treated as separate.
by
Sarah Blackwood
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The New Yorker
on
February 14, 2019
True West: Searching for the Familiar in Early Photos of L.A. and San Francisco
A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
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Collectors Weekly
on
February 13, 2019
An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History
What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.
by
Saidiya Hartman
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The New Yorker
on
February 9, 2019
The Making of an Iconic Photograph: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
The complex backstory of one of the most famous images of the Great Depression.
by
Jason Kottke
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kottke.org
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January 31, 2019
An Itinerant Photographer's Diverse Portraits of the Turn-of-the-Century American South
A new exhibit features photos by Hugh Mangum, whose glass plate negatives were salvaged from a North Carolina barn.
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Allison C. Meier
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Hyperallergic
on
January 20, 2019
These 'Persuasive Maps' Aren't Concerned With the Facts
A digital collection shows how subjective maps can be used to manipulate, rather than present the world as it really is.
by
Mimi Kirk
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CityLab
on
December 27, 2018
How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole
Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”
by
Brooke Obie
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Shadow and Act
on
December 14, 2018
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