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Miniature city dwellers at the foot of a row of cookbooks.

Bonnie Slotnick, the Downtown Food-History Savant

In the forty-eight years that she’s lived in the West Village, the owner of the iconic cookbook shop has never ordered delivery.

by Hannah Goldfield via The New Yorker on August 26, 2024

Emily Dickinson.

When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In

The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?

by Kamran Javadizadeh via The New Yorker on August 21, 2024

John Andrew Jackson riding a galloping horse and tipping his hat.

How Do We Tell a Tale of People Who Sought to Disappear?

The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.

by Susanna Ashton via HNN on August 13, 2024

Sleeping Buffalo and Medicine Rocks, Montana.

The Vision of Little Shell

How Ayabe-way-we-tung guided his tribe in the midst of colonization.

by Chris La Tray via High Country News on August 1, 2024

Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture by Molly A. Schneider. University of Texas Press. 238 pages.

The Myth America Show

The anthology drama provided a venue for discourses on American national identity during the massive cultural, economic, and political changes occurring at midcentury.

by Josie Torres Barth via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2024

A drawing of a crowd of people standing around the Wakasa stone in a crate.

The Recollector

How the Wakasa stone, a memorial to a Japanese man murdered in a Utah internment camp, became the flash point of a bitter modern dispute.

by Pablo Calvi via The Believer on July 11, 2024

Two women protesting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

Disposable Heroes

Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward.”

by Moira Donegan via Bookforum on July 2, 2024

Fanny Angelina Hesse in front of article about her accomplishments.

Meet the Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology With a Simple Kitchen Staple

Fanny Angelina Hesse introduced agar to the life sciences in 1881. A trove of unpublished family papers sheds new light on her many accomplishments.

by Corrado Nai via Smithsonian on June 25, 2024

African American families stand alongside a dirt road in 1936.

How Land Theft Decimated Black Communities

In the book “Rooted,” activist and writer Brea Baker elucidates the thread between limited Black land ownership and the racial wealth gap.

by Brea Baker via The Emancipator on June 25, 2024

A French soldier bandaging a wounded Vietnamese comrade.

How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats

Bill Trueheart's battles with friend and fellow Foreign Service officer Fritz Nolting illustrate the American tragedy in Southeast Asia.

by Timothy Noah via Washington Monthly on June 24, 2024

A photograph of the author's brother, Steve, playing pool.

Imperfecta

Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing.

by Pamela Haag via The American Scholar on June 20, 2024

Herbert Hoover breaking ground on a model home in front of a crowd.

Home Sweet Home

On the early years of the real estate industry, and the racist effort to convince white Americans to buy single-family homes.

by Adrienne Brown via HNN on June 20, 2024

John Muir.

What a Young John Muir Learned In the Wisconsin Wilderness

The Scottish-born naturalist’s early years in the United States.

by Amanda Bellows via Literary Hub on June 14, 2024

Frederick Douglas.

What Frederick Douglass Learned from an Irish Antislavery Activist

Frederick Douglass was introduced to the idea of universal human rights after traveling to Ireland and meeting with Irish nationalist leaders.

by Christine Kinealy via The Conversation on June 14, 2024

Aaron Douglas, “Still Life,” n.d.

The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem

How Black artists made modernism their own.

by Susan Tallman via The Atlantic on June 14, 2024

40 Acres and a Lie

We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.

by Alexia Fernández Campbell, April Simpson, Pratheek Rebala via Mother Jones on June 13, 2024

Japanese American community leaders Tom Yamaski, Ted Okahashi, and Karl Yoneda, who holds his son, Tommy, at a meeting at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley, Calif. on May 5, 1942. Yoneda's wife, the activist Elaine Black Yoneda, who was not Japanese, also spent time in the camp.

On Loving Day, Remember the Families Separated by the U.S.

During Japanese-American incarceration, what happened to mixed-race families and individuals?

by Tracy Slater via Made By History on June 12, 2024

A rendering of Buckminster Fuller and June Jordan's “Skyrise for Harlem” project published in Esquire, April 1965.

Nowhere But Up

In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.

by Nikil Saval via New York Review of Books on June 8, 2024

Normandy American Cemetery.

Who Were the Americans Who Fought on D-Day?

A new exhibition seeks to understand the young soldiers who came ashore at Normandy.

by Kami Rice via The Bulwark on June 6, 2024

Book cover of "In the Shadow of Liberty," featuring city scenes and barbed wire.

Intended to Be Cruel

On Ana Raquel Minian’s “In the Shadow of Liberty.”

by Sara Campos via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 2, 2024

Marketplace in New Orleans, 1936.

New Orleans as a Nexus of Power

American empire, bananas, and the Crescent City.

by Glenn Chambers Jr. via 64 Parishes on June 1, 2024

Judith Jones

The Woman Who Made America Take Cookbooks Seriously

Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at the core of traditional “women’s work.”

by Lily Meyer via The Atlantic on May 28, 2024

A painting of Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

The Prophet Who Failed

After the apocalypse that wasn’t.

by Emily Harnett via Harper’s on May 24, 2024

Liberty holding an American flag with "For the Union" written on it.

Capturing the Civil War

The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world.

by Susanna Ashton via JSTOR Daily on May 23, 2024

Spindle boys in Georgia cotton mill.

America Has Been Having the Same Debate About Child Labor for 100 Years

A century ago, debates about the failed Child Labor Amendment turned on larger issues about work, childhood, and the role of government.

by Janet Golden via Made By History on May 23, 2024

Whitehall, designed by Carrère & Hastings for Henry Morrison Flagler, 1902.

Building Palm Beach

On the town’s history & architecture.

by Benjamin Riley via The New Criterion on May 22, 2024

graph of historic immigration data

How America Tried and Failed to Stay White

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

by Eduardo Porter, Youyou Zhou via Washington Post on May 15, 2024

Black nurses and Sea View Hospital.

The ‘Black Angels’ Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Professional nurses who moved north during the Great Migration worked in New York City’s most contagious sanatorium — and changed the course of public health.

by Maria Smilios via The Emancipator on May 9, 2024

Nell Irvin Painter.

Nell Irvin Painter’s Chronicles of Freedom

A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.

by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 7, 2024

Members of the Mason family, St. Inigoes, Maryland, circa 1890–1909.

How Bondage Built the Church

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

by Tiya Miles via New York Review of Books on May 2, 2024

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