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Portrait of Jenny Lind by George Healy.

Jenny Lind, Taylor Swift, and Another Era's Tour

How the Taylor Swift of her age captivated New Orleans.

by Craig Fuchs via The Historic New Orleans Collection on October 24, 2024

Map of the US Air Force Atlantic Missile Range stations in 1957

Making the American Orbit

The U.S. military operated a Grand Turk missile tracking station for 30 years, with limited local benefits, highlighting American expansionism's impact.

by Andrew J. Ross via Perspectives on History on October 8, 2024

Donald Trump speaks at a rally in July in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.

by Sean T. Byrnes via Dissent on September 23, 2024

Twin towers missing; twin towers visible with surroundings missing.

How the War on Terror Warped the American Left

A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.

by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on September 10, 2024

Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson visit the Fletcher family in Inez, Kentucky, in 1964.

Who’s to Blame for White Poverty?

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

by Elizabeth Catte via Boston Review on September 5, 2024

Richard Nixon gestures toward George Meany during a speech at the 1971 AFL-CIO convention.

How the “AFL-CIA” Undermined Labor Movements Abroad

During the Cold War, the AFL-CIO actively participated in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad.

by Jeff Schuhrke, Cal Turner, Sara Van Horn via Jacobin on September 2, 2024

A scale measuring the weight of gold flakes; with a quill, wax seals, lace, and jewelry.

Where Inflation Comes From

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are.

by Carola Conces Binder via Works In Progress on August 30, 2024

Bruce Springsteen on July 19, 1988 at his concert in East Berlin on the cycle track Weissensee.

Can the 1980s Explain 2024?

The yuppies embodied the winning side of America’s deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind.

by Nicholas Lemann via Washington Monthly on August 25, 2024

"American Progress" painting by John Gast, 1872.

Reconsidering Expansion

Historians question "expansion" as the defining process of U.S. growth, proposing alternative terms like "empire" and "settler colonialism."

by Rachel St. John via Teaching American History on August 20, 2024

White settlers traveling west in Conestoga wagons.

America as Filibuster Society

American expansionism goes beyond territory.

by Nick Burns via American Affairs on August 20, 2024

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist, ca 1492–95

How Renaissance Art Found Its Way to American Museums

We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the U.S., little aware how and why they were acquired.

by Ashley Couto via JSTOR Daily on August 14, 2024

Roll of raffle tickets labeled "National Security Priority"

How Everything Became National Security

And national security became everything.

by Daniel W. Drezner via Foreign Affairs on August 12, 2024

Illustration imagining Karl Marx sitting on a ranch in Texas.

Marx Goes to Texas

Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas.

by Ryan Moore via Protean on August 11, 2024

Ross Perot at a press conference.

Did the Early 1990s Break American Politics?

John Ganz offers a whirlwind tour of the cranks, conservatives, and con artists who helped remake the American right at the turn of the 21st century.

by David Klion via The Nation on July 29, 2024

Factory cloth samples.

Chinese Production, American Consumption

The convergence of economy and politics in the Sino-US relationship via Jonathan Chatwin’s “The Southern Tour” and Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson’s “Made in China.”

by Kate Merkel-Hess via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 28, 2024

A yuppie surrounded by money and luxury items.

When Yuppies Ruled

Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the young urban professional tell us about our own?

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 22, 2024

1920s advertisement for a home refridgerator.

Homing Devices: Women’s Home Planning Scrapbooks, 1920s—1950s

Women on the homefront planned future homes with scrapbooks, blending wartime duty with dreams of postwar prosperity and modern comforts.

by Andrew M. Shanken via Platform on July 22, 2024

People seated at town hall meeting.

What We Get Wrong About White Workers

Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.

by Chris Maisano, Stephanie Ternullo via Jacobin on July 9, 2024

John Gast's 1872 painting "American Progress," in which Miss Columbia, a personification of the enlightening United States, is depicted leading pioneers over the western plains.

Two Years That Made the West

In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California.

by Elliott West via American Heritage on July 3, 2024

1924 Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden.

Why the 1924 Democratic National Convention Was the Longest and Most Chaotic of Its Kind

A century ago, the party took a record 103 ballots and 16 days of intense, violent debate to choose a presidential nominee.

by Eli Wizevich via Smithsonian on June 24, 2024

graph of historic immigration data

How America Tried and Failed to Stay White

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

by Eduardo Porter, Youyou Zhou via Washington Post on May 15, 2024

The Tontine Building, Wall Street, New York, 1797.

From “Boring” to “Roaring” Banking

On the mechanics of Wall Street’s influence on key institutions of American democracy, from the New Deal to today.

by Anna Pick via Public Seminar on April 29, 2024

Volunteers at Big Creek Missions in Leslie County, Kentucky

Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

I’ve been going back to eastern Kentucky for over a decade. Since 2016, something there has changed.

by Bradley Devlin via The American Conservative on April 22, 2024

Richard Slotkin.

“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin

"I was always working on a theory of America."

by Kathleen Belew, Richard S. Slotkin via Public Books on April 19, 2024

People celebrating the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

Lincoln’s Imagined West

In Lincoln’s view the West represented a space for opportunity, especially for the citizen-soldiers returning to their prewar pursuits.

by Cecily Nelson Zander via The Civil War Monitor on April 1, 2024

Continental Currency $20 banknote with marbled edge (May 10, 1775).

Marbled Money

Marbled paper was a way to make banknotes and checks unique—a critical characteristic for a nascent American Republic.

by Katrina Gulliver, Jake Benson, John Craig via JSTOR Daily on March 14, 2024

Depositors of a failed bank hold a protest during the Great Depression.

A Decisive Influence: The American Public’s Role in Financial Regulation

The history of grassroots banking politics has been overlooked — and even denied.

by Christopher W. Shaw via Process: A Blog for American History on March 12, 2024

The State Capitol building in Richmond, Va.

Debt Has Long Been a Tool for Limiting Black Freedom

In pre-Civil War Richmond, Black people were forced to literally pay for the mechanisms of white supremacy.

by Amanda White Gibson via Made By History on February 19, 2024

President Bill Clinton signing NAFTA

The Long Shadow of NAFTA

Neither side of the border has seen the benefits it was promised.

by Helen Andrews via The American Conservative on February 12, 2024

Composite image of a girl holding a yellow umbrella in a bright meadow during thunder storm.

The Problem With Blaming Climate Change For Extreme Weather Damage

Why headlines blaming extreme weather on climate change don’t hold up, the peril of catastrophism, and the case that we’re actually safer than ever before.

by Ted Nordhaus via The New Atlantis on February 5, 2024

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