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Grave markings for Jane Austen

Happy Birthday, Jane!

A survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
by Stephanie Insley Hershinow via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 16, 2025
The unveiling of the statue of Barbara Rose Johns

Statue of Black Teen Replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol

Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school in rural Virginia.
by Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Meckler via Washington Post on December 16, 2025
The staff of the Whole Earth Truck Store in 1968 Menlo Park, California.

Natural Systems

Gurney Norman and the dream of the counterculture.
by Tim Leonido via The Point on December 16, 2025
"The Sack of Corinth" depicts the tragic 146 BC destruction of the ancient Greek city by Romans.

They Were All Our Ancestors

Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.
by Jason Kuznicki via Liberal Currents on December 12, 2025
David Rubenstein looks toward the Washington Monument.

When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.
by Michael Powell via The Atlantic on December 1, 2025
Robert Crumb holding up a cartoon book and pointing to it.

Desperate Character: Rambunctious R. Crumb

Rambunctious and often offensive, R. Crumb draws freely on pre-existing racial and gender stereotypes.
by J. Hoberman via London Review of Books on November 14, 2025
A collage of the American flag.

My Father’s Flag and the Idea of America

Over decades, and through harrowing experiences, my family held on to this bit of cloth as a reminder of everything they believed in—and were running toward.
by Laurence H. Tribe via The Bulwark on November 7, 2025
Mark Tayac, the chief of the Piscataway Nation, in traditional dress.

We’re Still Here: The Still-Evolving Story of the Piscataway Nation

Long before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland’s Indigenous tribes from their land. Piscataway descendants want people to know their history.
by Ron Cassie via Baltimore Magazine on November 7, 2025
The Carson Mansion in Eureka, California.

Gloomth

What makes a house feel haunted and why do people keep telling these stories?
by Jon Day via London Review of Books on November 6, 2025
Author Julian Aguon as a child with his family.

Blessed Is the Spot

In a militarized territory like Guam, everything is political, even cancer.
by Julian Aguon via Places Journal on October 15, 2025
A drawing of an older man and woman sitting in a consulting room.

The Strange Case of Henrietta Wiley

A habitual drunkard’s journey through guardianship and the asylum.
by David Korostyshevsky via Nursing Clio on October 1, 2025
Apples on a branch of an apple tree.

To Understand America, Look to the Everyday Apple

The country is losing neighbourhood orchards—and a connection to its origins.
by Priyanka Kumar via The Walrus on September 27, 2025
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

Fifty Years After History’s Most Brutal Boxing Match

The Thrilla in Manila nearly killed Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on September 16, 2025
Book cover with the title "A Blacklist Education" written on a black and red background.

Legacies of Teacher Persecution and Resistance

Historian Jane Smith understands her childhood differently after discovering that her father had been pushed out of his profession during the Red Scare.
by Joan Wallach Scott via Academe on September 9, 2025
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
Minerva Parker Nichols; the New Century Club building she designed in Philadelphia.
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(Re)discovering Minerva Parker Nichols, Architect

The first American woman to establish an independent architectural practice, Minerva Parker Nichols built an unprecedented career in Philadelphia.
by Kelly Hayes McAlonie, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Margaret Lester, Ashley Gardini via JSTOR Daily on August 12, 2025
Chaos outside the Washington Hilton Hotel after the assassination attempt on President Reagan.

American Idols

Death in the magnetic age.
by Sam Kriss via The Point on August 11, 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
Trees starting to turn colors, in front of mountains and a blue cloudy sky.

My Side of the Mountain

On Jean Craighead George’s most famous book, Walden’s legacy, and the dream of togetherness.
by Jennifer Kabat via Orion Magazine on July 30, 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
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