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Black and white lithograph drawing of a white man dragging away a Black woman as another white man holds her baby.

Maternal Grief in Black and White

Examining enslaved mothers and antislavery literature on the eve of war.
by Cassandra Berman via Nursing Clio on September 22, 2022
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Responses to “Is History History?”

Responding to a controversial recent critique of "presentism," two historians make the case that history and politics have always been deeply interwoven.
by Priya Satia, Malcolm Brian Foley via Perspectives on History on September 7, 2022
Black and white photo of children holding signs about remembrance, at a depot in New York City to greet their parents after a mass strike parade in 1911.

The Building Blocks of History

A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.
by Walker Mimms, Richard Cohen via The Nation on August 17, 2022
Oprah Winfrey speaking at a podium.
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Oprah’s Shows on the L.A. Riots Reveal What We’ve Lost Without Her Program

The power of daytime talk shows — especially “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
by Leah Wright Rigueur, Kellie Carter Jackson via Made By History on May 2, 2022
Illustration of Abraham Lincoln getting ready to give a speech.

Re-imagining the Great Emancipator

How shall a generation know its story, if it will know no other?
by Ralph Lerner via National Affairs on March 21, 2022
Eighth graders create a group map of the United State.

What Happens to Middle School Kids When You Teach Them About Slavery? Here’s a Vivid Example.

The topic is emotional. That’s not a bad thing.
by Mary Niall Mitchell, Kate Shuster via Slate on February 10, 2022
Major Charles Whittlesey in his military uniform.

A Tragedy After the Unknown’s Funeral: Charles Whittlesey and the Costs of Heroism

While he did not die in a war, he can certainly be mourned as a casualty of war—as can the thousands of other veterans who have died by suicide.
by Jenifer Leigh van Vleck via Arlington National Cemetery on November 16, 2021
Regulus, painting by J.M.W. Turner, c. 1828.

It’s Time for Some Game Theory

Experiencing history in Assassin’s Creed.
by Caroline Wazer via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 8, 2021
A Black family of four in front of their suburban home.
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The ‘Wonder Years’ Remake Resurrects a 1970 Tactic to Diversify TV Viewing

Putting Black characters in situations familiar to White viewers aims to build empathy and interest.
by Kate L. Flach via Made By History on October 1, 2021
Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation Spent the Last Decade of Her Life Violently Destroying Bars. She Had Her Reasons. 

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Slate on September 7, 2021
A Asian-American store

Why A New Law Requiring Asian American History In Schools Is So Significant

"By not showing up in American history, by not hearing about Asian Americans in schools, that contributes to that sense of foreignness."
by Li Zhou via Vox on July 20, 2021
Still life painting, “Early American, Apples in a Porcelain Basket” (2007), by Sharon Core.

After Apple Picking

The decline of South Carolina's apple industry, interwoven with personal memories of family orchards.
by Mark Powell via Oxford American on March 23, 2021
Photo of former African American woman, Bernette Johnson, wearing judicial robes

The Dissenter

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.
by Elon Green via The Appeal on March 2, 2021

The Radical History of Corporate Sensitivity Training

The modern-day human-resources practice is rooted in avant-garde philosophy.
by Beth Blum via The New Yorker on September 24, 2020

On the Uses of History for Staying Alive

Reflections on reading Nietzsche in Alaska in the early days of Covid-19.
by Bathsheba Demuth via The Point on July 12, 2020

The Lessons of the Great Depression

In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.
by Lizabeth Cohen via The Atlantic on May 17, 2020

Experiential History

Can experiencing elements of what is was like in the past make us better historians?
by Tyler Rudd Putman via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on February 10, 2020
Men await bread and coffee distributed to the homeless and unemployed at the Bowery Mission in NYC, 1906.

The Crusading Newsman Who Taught Americans to Give to the Poor

On May 10, 1900, the Navy steamship Quito sailed from Brooklyn, New York, to deliver 5,000 tons of corn and seeds to the “starving multitudes” of India.
by Heather D. Curtis via What It Means to Be American on October 20, 2019

Historical Fanfiction as Affective History Making

How online fandoms are allowing people to find themselves in the narrative.
by Sarah Calise via Nursing Clio on October 2, 2019

The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to "Peanuts"

How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.
by Chris Ware via The New Yorker on September 24, 2019
Joe Buck and Rizzo walking on a bridge.

How John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top

It became the first and only X-rated movie to win a best picture Oscar.
by Koraljka Suton via Cinephilia & Beyond on August 4, 2019

It Can Happen Here

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat.
by Timothy Snyder via Slate on July 12, 2019
Teenage students in a classroom.

What It Felt Like

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 20, 2019
Abandoned house surrounded by water.

Chronicling the End Times on Tangier Island

Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.
by Mickie Meinhardt via The Bitter Southerner on December 4, 2018
Photo of "Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa, slave children from New Orleans."
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What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice

A recent photography exhibit at the Getty Center raises difficult questions about our capacity for empathy.
by Allison C. Meier on June 12, 2018
Printed letter to Dear Abby with answer.

The Power of the Advice Columnist

From Benjamin Franklin to Quora, how advice has shaped Americans’ behavior and expectations of the world.
by Alexandra Molotkow via The New Republic on March 26, 2018
Woman wearing a VR headset.

The Future of History Lessons is a VR Headset

A conversation with the creator of a virtual reality experience that takes you inside the protests leading up to MLK Jr.’s death.
by Derek Ham, Ann-Derrick Gaillot via The Outline on February 21, 2018

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.
by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017

What the "Crack Baby" Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic

Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on July 16, 2017

An Appeal for Grace

The white historian’s responsibility to radical empathy and refuting the “invented past”.
by Caroline Grego via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 22, 2017
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