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Macho Macho Men

Bodybuilding is routinely presented as the very apex of male heterosexuality—but its history is a bit gayer than you might think.
by Benjamin Weil via The Baffler on November 23, 2021
The full chart of television genres from 1945 to present.

Television Genres Over Time

Here’s how the distribution of genres has changed since 1945 up to present.
by Nathan Yau via FlowingData on October 26, 2021
Clay Shaw and two aides, holding up the newspaper announcing his acquittal. Copyright AP 1969.

The Homophobic Backdrop to Garrison’s Persecution of Clay Shaw

A review of "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime."
by Martin J. Kelly via Washington Decoded on October 11, 2021
Luther Martin
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For Constitution Day, Let's Toast the Losers of the Convention

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.
by Richard Hall via HNN on September 19, 2021
President Obama in the Oval Office.

Pictures at a Restoration

On Pete Souza’s Obama.
by Blair McClendon via n+1 on August 10, 2021
Glass with spilled rainbow alcohol

Chasing 'Phantoms of the Past': Gay & Lesbian Bar Archivists on Preserving LGBTQ+ Nightlife History

VinePair interviewed eight LGBTQ+ archivers around the country about documenting America’s gay and lesbian bars while they still can.
by Dave Infante via VinePair on June 15, 2021

How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border

A conversation between a historian and the creator of a new documentary short about NRA leader Harlon Carter.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Sierra Pettengill via Boston Review on May 7, 2021
A Union soldier sitting with his family

The Problem With Patriotism

I can’t ignore what this country has done to Black people. How do I find my place in it?
by Sasha Banks via The Atlantic on May 6, 2021
Andra Day as Billie Holiday in her dressing room.

The Trials of Billie Holiday

Two new movies emphasize the singer’s spirit of defiance and political courage.
by Lidija Haas via The New Republic on February 26, 2021
A group of people striking with 9to5.

The Labor Feminism of 9to5 Should Guide Our Organizing Today

The vision of feminist labor organizing that guided the women’s white-collar organizing project 9to5 should still be our north star.
by Marianela D’Aprile via Jacobin on February 1, 2021
A Seminole man puts his hand inside the mouth of an alligator

How Florida’s Seminole Tribe Transformed Alligator Wrestling Into a Symbol of Independence

Once a means of survival, and then an exploitative spectacle, the sport can also embody a synergy with a top predator in Florida’s changing landscape.
by Adam Piron, Murat Oztaskin, Adam Khalil via The New Yorker on January 27, 2021

Re-watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests

The landmark Ken Burns documentary hasn’t aged well. But it continues to shape American perceptions about the Confederacy and slavery.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 26, 2020
1975 digital camera prototype

How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History

We’re capturing the mundane as well as the memorable.
by Allison Marsh via IEEE Spectrum on June 30, 2020
Dr. Dre.

The Complicated Truths of Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’

No rap album has quite the mythology attached to it—as a game changer, a king maker, a genre expander. But legends aren’t exactly fact.
by Justin Sayles via The Ringer on April 20, 2020
African Americans gather near a Confederate monument.

The Confederacy’s Long Shadow

Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.
by Dierdre Mask via The Economist on April 2, 2020

The Loser King

Failing upward with Oliver North.
by Matt Hanson via The Baffler on March 10, 2020
Workers harvesting oranges.

The United Farm Workers in Florida Citrus, 1972–1977

If labor organizers learned anything from decades of small victories and stubborn failures in the U.S. South, it was that interracial unions were hard work.
by Terrell Orr via Southern Cultures on December 4, 2019

An Unfinished Revolution

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.
by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on November 21, 2019

The Mafia Style in American Politics

Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.
by George Packer via The Atlantic on October 3, 2019
Photograph of Roy Cohn sitting in a wooden brown and yellow upholstered chair.

Covering for Roy Cohn

A documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.
by David Klion via The New Republic on September 18, 2019

Blinded by The White: Race And The Exceptionalizing of Ted Bundy

Why America's obsession with Ted Bundy needs to stop.
by Sean Gerrity via Nursing Clio on July 18, 2019

When Pat Buchanan Brought Johnny Cash to the Nixon White House

It didn't go exactly as planned. But for TAC's founder, this is where his populist antiwar movement may have begun.
by Jack Hunter via The American Conservative on May 24, 2019

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 via Shadow and Act on December 14, 2018

A Skyline Is Born

A history of filmmakers retelling the story of New York’s architecture.
by Tatum Dooley via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 14, 2018

How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.
by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018
Marsha Johnson

Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)

Why it's important to know that Marsha P. Johnson did not start the riots at Stonewall.
by R. E. Fulton via Nursing Clio on June 26, 2018

Did you know the CIA _____?

Errol Morris and the hot cold war.
by Malcolm Harris via n+1 on March 7, 2018

The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota

The Experimental City revisits the plan for a futuristic Minnesota city that would solve urban problems.
by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on January 2, 2018
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017

The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.
by Nick Turse via The Intercept on September 28, 2017
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