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Four people looking at a latrine

The Paradise of the Latrine

American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.
by Simon Toner via Modern American History on November 29, 2019
Black girls exiting a school building accompanied by U.S. Marshalls.

First Day of School—1960, New Orleans

Leona Tate thought it must be Mardi Gras. Gail thought they were going to kill her.
via The Kitchen Sisters on November 12, 2019
Title page of "The History of the New York African Free-Schools."

The New York Manumission Society

Inspired by America’s exceptional idea, it took a vital step toward securing liberty for slaves.
by Richard Brookhiser via National Review on October 24, 2019

How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.
by Adrian Chen via The Nation on October 14, 2019
Photograph of Julian Bond holding one of his children.

Julian Bond Papers Project

A new digital archive from UVA Carter G. Woodson Institute and Center for Digital Editing explores the late Civil Rights leader’s life, legacy, and writings.
by Deborah McDowell, Laura Baker, James Perla via Carter G. Woodson Institute on September 25, 2019
Modern building on a grassy lawn

This Small Indiana Town is a Hotbed of Utopianism

New Harmony has attracted eccentric spiritual groups, social reformers, intellectuals, and artists.
by Diana Buds via Curbed on August 5, 2019

Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Semicolon

People have passionate feelings about the oddball punctuation. Here are some things you probably didn't know about it.
by Cecelia Watson via The Millions on July 29, 2019

How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College

A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.
by Tamara Gilkes Borr via The Atlantic on May 15, 2019
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You Have Died of Dysentery

A conversation with the lead designer of the 1985 version of the Oregon Trail video game.
via BackStory on December 21, 2018

Encyclopedia Hounds

A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
by Theodore Pappas via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 19, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Revisiting a Transformational Speech: The Culture War Scorecard

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.
by Michael Barone via The American Conservative on May 30, 2018

There Is Power in a Union

A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.
by Mike Konczal via The Nation on May 23, 2018
Thomas Jefferson's library at the Library of Congress.

Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 15, 2018
Identical twin girls wearing event entry bracelets and blue ribbon medals.

The Intriguing History of the Autism Diagnosis

How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced.
by Bonnie Evans via Aeon on January 8, 2018
Stereograph titled 'The Toucans' depicting three toucans and a snake amid plants and rocks

Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality

The shocking power of immersing oneself in another world was all the buzz once before—about 150 years ago.
by Clive Thompson via Smithsonian on September 21, 2017
Roy Takeno, editor, and group reading paper in front of office, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Behind Barbed Wire

Japanese-American internment camp newspapers.
by Chris Ehrman, Heather Thomas via Library of Congress on August 31, 2017
Middle school building.

The Invention of Middle School

In the 1960s, there was no grand vision behind the idea of a middle school. The problem that the model sought to solve was segregation.
by Paul S. George, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on August 29, 2017

A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof.
by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah via GQ on August 21, 2017

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.
by Christian H. Cooper via Nautilus on April 20, 2017

The Turn-of-the-Century Lesbians Who Founded The Field of Home Ec

Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer lived in an open lesbian relationship and helped found the field of home economics.
by Megan Elias, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on December 30, 2016
A still from a film western depicting a fictionalized version of volunteers at the Alamo.

What a 1950s Texas Textbook Can Teach Us About Today's Textbook Fight

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.
by Nathan Bernier via KUT 90.5 on November 16, 2016
Stylized graphic of black and white schools on fire.

Burning 'Brown' to the Ground

In many Southern states, "Brown v. Board of Education" fueled decades of resistance to school integration.
by Carol Anderson via Teaching Tolerance on October 1, 2016
A stack of books in a classroom.

The Racism of History Textbooks

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.
by Jonathan Zimmerman, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on October 20, 2015
Lithograph of Freedman's Bureau official separating freedmen from hostile whites.

The Freedmen's Bureau

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Hillary Brady via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015
Portrait of stern looking John Winthrop.

Father’s Property and Child Custody in the Colonial Era

The rights and responsibilities of 17th-century fatherhood in England's North American colonies.
by Mary Ann Mason via Berkeley Law (University Of California) on April 11, 2015
Thaddeus Stevens imagined as a boxer.

Remarkable Radical: Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer who never backed down from a fight.
by Steve Moyer via Humanities on November 1, 2012

“Destroyer and Teacher”: Managing the Masses During the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic

Revisiting the public health lessons learned during the 1918–1919 pandemic and reflecting on their relevance for the present.
by Nancy Tomes via PubMed Central on April 1, 2010
Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson’s Religious Empire Expanding in the Northwest

While hosting a conference featuring his defense of "Southern Slavery," Douglas Wilson exposes the radicalism of his growing "Christian" empire.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on April 20, 2004
Cartoon depictinf a man pouring a bowl of sugar babies in front of a group of onlookers.

Birchismo

Culture-shocked Americans in the 1960s were all too happy to take directions from the John Birch Society: take an extreme right and drive forever.
by Dan Kelly via The Baffler on December 16, 1999
Photographer Gordon Parks and Norman Fontanelli, whose family is the subject of Parks's photojournalism.
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Gordon Parks' Diary of a Harlem Family

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.
by Public Broadcast Laboratory via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 3, 1968
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