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Illustrated cover of the "Secret Garden"

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.

by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina via The Public Domain Review on March 8, 2011

Reconstruction of Mt. Malady hospital at Henricus Historical Park, Virginia.

Health Care in the New World

Reporter Catherine Moore visits the first hospital in the New World and finds out why the “public plan” in the Virginia colony may have had its drawbacks.

via BackStory on October 1, 2009

Photograph of blues singer Robert Johnson, playing guitar, 1936.

Searching for Robert Johnson

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.

by Frank DiGiacomo via Vanity Fair on October 1, 2008

Prescott Bush, Dorothy Bush, and George H. W. Bush at the White House.

How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power

Rumors of a link between Prescott Bush and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. They were right.

by Duncan Campbell via The Guardian on September 25, 2004

Bringing Rapes to Court

How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.

by Sharon Block via Commonplace on April 1, 2003

Joe Biden as a new Senator, sitting next to framed photographs of his family

Death and the All-American Boy

Joe Biden was a lot more careful around the press after this 1974 profile.

by Kitty Kelley via Washingtonian on June 1, 1974

Photographer Gordon Parks and Norman Fontanelli, whose family is the subject of Parks's photojournalism.

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

James Dobson in front of a cross.

James Dobson Was My Horror, and Yours

The Christian-right luminary built his long career on cruelty and submission.

by Sarah Jones via Intelligencer on August 27, 2025

Billy Wilder walking down a street, holding a cigarette.

Billy Wilder’s Battle With the Past

How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor’s guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust, and the paradoxes of Zionism.

by Ben Schwartz via The Nation on August 18, 2025

Sampler, by Abigail Adams, 1789.

The Founders’ Family Research

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

by Karin Wulf via History News Network on August 5, 2025

American Progress painting by John Gast

Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics

By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.

by Ed Simon via Hyperallergic on August 1, 2025

Joseph Pilates and Romana Kryzanowska illustration of them doing pilates.

Bodies by Joe

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

by Alma Guillermoprieto via New York Review of Books on July 31, 2025

Col. Elmer Ellsworth

Ellsworth, Embalming, and the Birth of the Modern American Funeral

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth's death marked a turning point in how the nation honored the fallen.

by Jarred Marlowe via Emerging Civil War on July 24, 2025

A drawing of a microscopic slide of Bacterium lactis.

Dying Before Germ Theory

The harrowing experience of being powerless against illness and death.

by Melanie A. Kiechle via Nursing Clio on July 21, 2025

Mary Virginia Montgomery

The Montgomerys of Mississippi: How a Once Enslaved Family Bought Jefferson Davis’ Plantation House

In 1872, former slave Mary Virginia Montgomery, now a cotton plantation owner, records her life’s changes after moving from slavery to self-sufficiency.

by Neely Tucker via Library of Congress Blog on July 10, 2025

Wanto Company storefront with a sign that reads "I am an American."

Alien Enemies

The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

by Brandon Shimoda via The Baffler on July 9, 2025

The Heritage of Dylann Roof

Ten years after the Charleston massacre, reverence for the Confederacy that Roof idolized is going strong.

by Elizabeth Robeson via The Nation on June 17, 2025

Industrial plant releasing thick smoke into the sky.

Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

On the intersection of environmental contamination and violence in the Pacific Northwest.

by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on June 10, 2025

William F. Buckley reclines behind a desk, glasses in hand, a bulletin board of National Review magazine material behind him.

The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump

The political vision that William F. Buckley helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.

by Jack McCordick via The New Republic on June 3, 2025

Cover of the book Under Cover by John Roy Carlson depicts english language nazi newspapers.

The First Rough Draft of the United States’ Homegrown Nazis

On the renewed relevance of “Under Cover,” Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld.

by Michael Bobelian via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 3, 2025

Ella Fitzgerald performing in Paris, 1961

Rare Gift, Rare Grit

Ella Fitzgerald performed above the emotional fray.

by Martha Bayles via The Hedgehog Review on May 23, 2025

Illustration of lady liberty balancing housework and child care, holding cash instead of a torch.

The World That ‘Wages for Housework’ Wanted

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.

by Lily Meyer via The Atlantic on May 23, 2025

The insolvent brothers giving queer bail

Insolvent Brothers: The Generals Ethan and Ira Allen

How could two renowned, high-ranking men of the American Revolution have fallen into such dire straits that they feared the loss of all they worked for?

by Gary Shattuck via Journal of the American Revolution on May 22, 2025

Robert Crumb

He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential

R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.

by Jeremy Lybarger via The New Republic on May 20, 2025

An iMac computer displays the starry night screensaver.

Recurring Screens

Reflections on memory, dreams, and computer screensavers.

by Nora Claire Miller via The Paris Review on May 20, 2025

A cartoon depicts two bandaged men suspended on the scales of justice raising their fists at each other.

Jack London’s Fantastic Revenge

In his short story “The Benefit of the Doubt,” Jack London turned truth into fiction, and then some.

by Andrew Rihn via The Saturday Evening Post on May 19, 2025

V. Ramirez's Army Corps badge.

How Real ID Excludes Real Americans

My dad’s birth certificate said Vicente. His passport said Vince. New legislation would have disenfranchised him.

by Catherine S. Ramírez via Zócalo Public Square on May 12, 2025

Aimee Semple McPherson addresses a crowd.

An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax

Aimee Semple McPherson created a wildly popular personal brand as a preacher—then suddenly disappeared.

by Dorothy Fortenberry via The Atlantic on May 12, 2025

Science fiction landscape.

75 Years Ago, "The Martian Chronicles" Legitimized Science Fiction

On Ray Bradbury’s underappreciated classic.

by Sam Weller via Literary Hub on April 28, 2025

Mark Twain

The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on April 28, 2025

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