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Suffrage Movement Convinced Women They Could ‘Have it All’

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.
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Wyatt Earp Does Not Rest in Peace

A pair of new books about US Marshal Wyatt Earp are now out. Only one of them shoots straight.
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Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.

Somebody Died, Babe: A Musical Cover-Up of Racism, Violence, and Greed

Beneath the popular folk song, “Swannanoa Tunnel” and the railroad tracks that run through Western North Carolina is a story of blood, greed, and obfuscation.

The Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

"No one story can completely explain Annie."

Picasso Meets Polio

The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.
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How a Maverick Hip-Hop Legend Found Inspiration in a Titan of American Industry

When LL Cool J sat for his portrait, he found common ground with the life-long philanthropical endeavors of John D. Rockefeller.

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

The Class of RBG

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59—as told by them, their families, and a SCOTUS justice who remembers them all.
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Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

Stories in the Shine

"Moonshine" is now a big thing in the liquor biz. But it takes a visit to West Virginia to get a sense of the complex stories in every barrel.

Farmers’ Almanacs and Folk Remedies

The role of almanacs in nineteenth-century popular medicine.

Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.
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George and Martha Washington Enslaved 300 People. Let’s Start With Their Names

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.
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The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio

Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”
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100 Years of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"

Where does Edith Wharton's idea of innocence fall into our own world?
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Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations

Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.
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America’s Long History of Imprisoning Children

Through slavery, Indian boarding schools, Japanese internment, mass incarceration, and anti-Communist wars against civilian populations in Latin America.

Why Did It Take So Long to Set Aunt Jemima Free?

PepsiCo’s move to end the racist brand comes shamefully late.
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Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.

So many people taught us to be more than the hatred heaped upon us.
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What Is There to Love About Longfellow?

He was the most revered poet of his day. It’s worth trying to figure out why.
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America’s First Connoisseur

Edward White’s new monthly column, “Off Menu,” serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times.
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How Baseball Players Became Celebrities

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.
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Ye Olde Morality-Enforcement Brigades

The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.

The Defender of Differences

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."
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Will Covid-19 Lead to Men and Women Splitting Care Work More Evenly?

History shows that men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.

Come On and Zoom-Zoom

The original “Zoom” burst joyfully out of Boston in the 1970s, and is still beloved by older members of Generation X.

Bowling For Suburbia

By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the "poor man's country club."
The Oakland Municipal Auditorium set up as a hospital, with Red Cross nurses tending to flu patients, 1918.

The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

A new book suggests that the plague’s horrors haunt modernist literature between the lines.
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The Untold Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company

A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe.

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