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Trouble with the Brothers: Booze, Divorce, and Madness in the American West
The past really is a foreign country, as historian Jonathan Ablard finds when piecing together the turbulent history of his ancestors in the West and Midwest.
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Jonathan Ablard
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Tropics of Meta
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June 23, 2025
Malcolm X the Girl Dad Was Hidden in Plain Sight
On the other side of the hardened activist was a man who stirred his coffee with his daughter's finger and told her it made it sweet.
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Mark Anthony Neal
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Level Magazine
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May 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a Broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
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Chelsea Stieber
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The Conversation
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May 14, 2025
Mark Twain and the Limits of Biography
The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.
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Erica Wagner
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New Statesman
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May 12, 2025
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Ronald Reagan’s Guiding Light
Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.
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Richard D. Mahoney
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JSTOR Daily
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April 30, 2025
When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas
While some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine, the Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston.
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Kathryn Schulz
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The New Yorker
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April 28, 2025
Legacies of Japanese American Incarceration
Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.
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Francisco Cantú
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New York Review of Books
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April 3, 2025
William and Henry James
Examining the tumultuous bond between the two brothers.
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Peter Brooks
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The Paris Review
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April 1, 2025
What Happens When the U.S. Declares War on Your Parents?
The Black Panthers shook America before the party was gutted by the government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride.
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Ed Pilkington
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The Guardian
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March 25, 2025
How a Leading Black Historian Uncovered Her Own Family’s Painful Past
Martha S. Jones’ new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives.
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Martha S. Jones
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Sara Georgini
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Smithsonian
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March 5, 2025
The Missing Persons of Reconstruction
Enslaved families were regularly separated. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited with their loved ones.
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Joshua D. Rothman
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The New Republic
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February 26, 2025
No Nation Under Their Feet
A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.
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David Levering Lewis
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Steve Nathans-Kelly
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Chicago Review of Books
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February 14, 2025
After Confederate Forces Took Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
Confederates kidnapped free Black people to sell into slavery. After the war, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones.
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Robert K. D. Colby
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Smithsonian
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February 6, 2025
Louis Armstrong’s Difficult Upbringing Revealed in Family Police Records
A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans.
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Dalya Alberge
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The Guardian
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February 1, 2025
How the Family From Everyone’s Favorite Musical Actually Came to America
And why so many people remember the tale so differently.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Slate
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January 26, 2025
Kennedy Family Values
Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?
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Alan Pell Crawford
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The American Conservative
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January 25, 2025
Lusting for Zion
A new book questions what we think we know about heterosexuality and Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.
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John G. Turner
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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January 23, 2025
The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.
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Jane C. Hu
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The New Yorker
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January 23, 2025
How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America
On John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the complex history of an oft-misunderstood political movement.
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Mary Frances Phillips
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Literary Hub
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January 10, 2025
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The First and Last Queen of Haiti in Exile
Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.
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Marlene L. Daut
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HNN
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January 7, 2025
Listening Devices
The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?
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Ann Neumann
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The Baffler
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January 6, 2025
How Jimmy Carter Lost Evangelical Christians to the Right
The Baptist Georgia governor won evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters changed sides—for the long haul.
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Chris Lehmann
via
The Nation
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December 30, 2024
Politics Is Personal
The 1946 elections were a disaster for Democrats—and the reason I was born.
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Peter Quinn
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Commonweal
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December 24, 2024
Talking Black Joy and Black Freedom with Blair LM Kelley
“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”
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Regina Bradley
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Blair LM Kelley
via
Public Books
on
December 16, 2024
The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans.
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Harmony Holiday
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Bookforum
on
December 10, 2024
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night.
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Anne Matthews
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The American Scholar
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December 5, 2024
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Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement
Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.
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Caleb Franz
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Made By History
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December 2, 2024
The Midnight World
Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all.
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Michael Chabon
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New York Review of Books
on
November 28, 2024
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
The story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel.
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Evan I. Schwartz
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Smithsonian
on
November 18, 2024
Friend of the Family
Jean Strouse explores the relationship between the Anglo-Jewish Wertheimers and John Singer Sargent, who painted twelve portraits of them.
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Ruth Bernard Yeazell
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New York Review of Books
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October 31, 2024
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