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Living in Words
A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.
by
Brenda Wineapple
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 13, 2022
Reading Betty Friedan After the Fall of Roe
The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.
by
Tis Lyz
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Men Yell At Me
on
September 21, 2022
Intimacy at a Distance
Hannah Zeavin’s history of remote and distance psychotherapy asks us whether the medium matters more than the message.
by
Danielle Carr
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The Nation
on
June 14, 2022
Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
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Marco Ramos
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Boston Review
on
May 17, 2022
The Secret Black History of LSD
Research on psychedelics has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion but it hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through drugs.
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Kali Holloway
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The Nation
on
March 22, 2022
Man On A Mission
A review of ”Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows” by Arthur Lubow.
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Brooke Allen
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The New Criterion
on
March 1, 2022
America’s First Opioid Crisis Grew Out Of the Carnage Of The Civil War
Tens of thousands of sick and injured soldiers became addicted.
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Michael E. Ruane
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Retropolis
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December 1, 2021
She Spoke to the Dead. They Told Her to Free the Slaves.
In 1850s Vermont, Achsa Sprague swore that the spirits who helped her walk again also possessed her with a crucial mission: freeing every soul in America.
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Madeline Bodin
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Narratively
on
October 21, 2021
Haunted Houses Have Nothing on Lighthouses
From drowning to murders to the mental toll of isolation, these stoic towers carry a full share of tragedy.
by
Sarah Durn
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Atlas Obscura
on
October 12, 2021
The Roe Baby
After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.
by
Joshua Prager
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The Atlantic
on
September 9, 2021
Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
May 17, 2021
Lincoln’s Rowdy America
A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.
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Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
on
April 29, 2021
Another Hayride
Self-help guru Louise Hay’s “Hayrides” drew in thousands during the hopelessness and government neglect of the AIDS crisis.
by
Matt Wolf
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New York Times Op-Docs
on
January 16, 2021
Born With Two Strikes
How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition.
by
Toluse Olorunnipa
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Griff Witte
via
Washington Post
on
October 8, 2020
What Is There to Love About Longfellow?
He was the most revered poet of his day. It’s worth trying to figure out why.
by
James Marcus
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The New Yorker
on
June 1, 2020
Heavy Metal, Year One: The Inside Story of Black Sabbath's Groundbreaking Debut
A look back on the album that kick-started a worldwide movement, half a century since Ozzy Osbourne first bellowed, “What is this that stands before me?”
by
Kory Grow
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Rolling Stone
on
February 11, 2020
The Broken Road of Peggy Wallace Kennedy
All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?
by
Frye Gaillard
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The Bitter Southerner
on
January 6, 2020
Life Under the Algorithm
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.
by
Gabriel Winant
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The New Republic
on
December 4, 2019
The Troubled History of Psychiatry
Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself. What, exactly, constitutes a mental disorder?
by
Jerome Groopman
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The New Yorker
on
May 20, 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
Why I Participated in a New Docuseries on The Clinton Affair
Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman”-ed.
by
Monica Lewinsky
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The Hive
on
November 13, 2018
Happy, Healthy Economy
Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.
by
Livia Gershon
via
Longreads
on
August 6, 2018
How the Midlife Crisis Came to Be
The midlife crisis went from an obscure psychological theory to a ubiquitous phenomenon.
by
Pamela Druckerman
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The Atlantic
on
May 29, 2018
The Encyclopedia of the Missing
For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
by
Jeremy Lybarger
via
Longreads
on
January 11, 2018
Civil War Soldiers’ Wet Dreams
Looking for traces of sexual fantasy in soldiers' letters home.
by
Dillon Carroll
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Nursing Clio
on
November 1, 2017
Theodore Dreiser’s New York
Teddy Dreiser tries to make it.
by
Mike Wallace
via
The Paris Review
on
October 26, 2017
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Lobotomy: A Dangerous Fad's Lingering Effect on Mental Illness Treatment
From the 1930s to the 1950s a radical surgery — the lobotomy — would forever change our understanding and treatment of the mentally ill.
by
Barbara Dury
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Margaret M. Ebrahim
via
Retro Report
on
April 16, 2017
Welcome to Disturbia
Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.
by
Amanda Kolson Hurley
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Curbed
on
May 25, 2016
How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured Before the Civil War
Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.
by
Jonathan Prude
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Commonplace
on
April 12, 2010
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