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Victoria Woodhull speaks as the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives receives a group of female suffragists, January 11, 1871

The Scandalous and Pioneering Victoria Woodhull

The first woman to run for president was infamous in her day.
by John Strausbaugh via National Review on February 8, 2020
Spies working for the OSS in 1943.

My Uncle, the Librarian-Spy

In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.
by Kathy Peiss via CrimeReads on February 5, 2020
A family poses for a photo outdoors.

Queering Postwar Marriage in the U.S.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.
by Lauren Gutterman via Not Even Past on February 1, 2020

The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave

William Dorsey Swann fought for queer freedom a century before Stonewall.
by Channing Gerard Joseph via The Nation on January 31, 2020
A team photo of the 1966 Ohio State Penitentiary Hurricanes from a newspaper.

Game Day at the Ohio Pen

Remembering the Ohio State Penitentiary Hurricanes—and the day my father played against them in 1965.
by David Martin via Belt Magazine on January 31, 2020
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McCarthyism at the Oscars

As José Ferrer was being handed his Oscar—making him the first Latino actor to win—he was being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
by Kristin Hunt via JSTOR Daily on January 30, 2020
A black father watching his child play with blocks, both of them smiling.

A Brief History of Black Names, from Perlie to Latasha

A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
by Trevon Logan via The Conversation on January 23, 2020

Professional Motherhood: A New Interpretation of Women in the Early Republic

Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic.
by C. C. Borzilleri via The Junto on January 21, 2020

How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — a Mafia Takeover

The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.
by Jason Turbow via Grubstreet on January 8, 2020
The sun shining through the crown of a lone tree in an agricultural field.

What The Mississippi Delta Teaches Me About Home—And Hope

Finding struggle and resilience on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues.
by Wright Thompson via Fellow Travelers on January 6, 2020

A New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.
by Amy Crawford via Smithsonian on January 1, 2020
Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson and the Declaration

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence announced a new epoch in world history, transforming a provincial tax revolt into a great struggle to liberate humanity.
by Peter S. Onuf via American Heritage on January 1, 2020
Elizabeth Warren at a debate podium.
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Why Family Separation Is So Central to Trump’s Immigration Vision

Strengthening family ties has been key to overcoming nativism — and in 2020, it can do so again.
by Maddalena Marinari via Made By History on December 21, 2019
Ed Dwight Jr. with model rocket.

I Was Poised to be the First Black Astronaut. I Never Made it to Space.

Ed Dwight Jr. trained to go to the moon, but racism in the selection process kept him out of space.
by Ben Proudfoot via New York Times Op-Docs on December 19, 2019
A young woman poses outside a wooden house covered with tar paper, wearing a bonnet and reading a book.

The 21-Year-Old Norwegian Immigrant Who Started Life Over by Homesteading Alone on America’s Prairie

In 1903 Mine Westbye moved to North Dakota to live a life "so quiet you almost feel afraid."
by Sigrid Lien via What It Means to Be American on December 15, 2019

How Christians of Color in Colonial Virginia Became 'Black'

Although the British settlers imported Africans from the first as slaves, the earliest Virginians had yet to establish many basic rules regarding slavery.
by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela Gross via Religion News Service on December 13, 2019

When Santa Claus Was Deplored in Wartime

The modern image of Santa Claus first appeared in a Civil War illustration, and it wasn’t the last time St. Nick was deployed in wartime.
by Christopher Klein via HISTORY on December 4, 2019

The Art of Dignity: Making Beauty Amid the Ugliness of WWII Japanese American Camps

A history of Japanese Internment in America through the art produced from it.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 3, 2019

Vietnam Draft Lotteries Were a Scientific Experiment

The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects.
by Tim Johnson, Dalton Conley, Christopher T. Dawes via The Atlantic on December 2, 2019

My Friend Mister Rogers

I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood.
by Tom Junod via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019

The Immigration Crisis Archive

How did today's bipartisan understanding of immigration—as an intolerable threat that justifies any means to stop it—take hold?
by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández via Public Books on October 25, 2019
Lithograph of the Fox Sisters.
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The Fox Sisters

The story of Kate and Margaret Fox, the small-town girls who triggered the 19th century movement known as Spiritualism.
via BackStory on October 25, 2019
African-American cowboys in Bonham, Texas, circa 1913

The Real Texas

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 24, 2019

Slavery in the President's Neighborhood

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.
by Lina Mann, Callie Hopkins, Matthew Costello, Louis Keene via White House Historical Association on October 22, 2019
Peale family portrait.

Domestic Tranquility: Privacy and the Household in Revolutionary America

British occupation brought challenges to the very foundation of the American home.
by Lauren Duval via Uncommon Sense on October 22, 2019
Illustration of WWI soldiers hiking thorugh a field; the painting uses light pastel colors and surrounds the soldiers with mist

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.
by Rebecca Onion via Literary Hub on October 21, 2019
Drawing of a lightbulb illuminating an inventor's laboratory.

The Real Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on October 21, 2019

Jimmy Hoffa and 'The Irishman': A True Crime Story?

Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.
by Jack Goldsmith via New York Review of Books on September 26, 2019
Samuel Francis

The Outsider

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?
by Matthew Rose via First Things on September 16, 2019

The Hidden Story of Two African American Women

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.
by Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay via The Conversation on September 9, 2019
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