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Rosa Parks’ Detroit Home And Hard Truths About The ‘Northern Promised Land That Wasn’t’

The civil rights activist and her family had to contend with racial discrimination beyond Montgomery.
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Root on September 7, 2017
Illustration of the harmful effects of alcohol on a Seneca village

America's First Addiction Epidemic

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
by Christopher Finan via Longreads on August 29, 2017

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.
by Michael Cottman via NBC News on July 3, 2017
The Miss Portland diner.
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The Making of the American Diner

Today's diners would surprise a 1940s patron. These restaurants were once vulgar boy’s clubs before becoming today's family-friendly establishments.
by Andrew Hurley, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on June 17, 2017
A painting of a "traditional" mid-20th century nuclear family.

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.
by Melinda Cooper via Boston Review on May 31, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.
by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017
George Washington with numbers pointing to proportions of his head for measurement.

George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?

Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.
by Yvonne Seale via The Public Domain Review on February 8, 2017
Picture of a suburban neighborhood.

The Suburban Horror of the Indian Burial Ground

In the 1970s and 1980s, homeowners were terrified by the idea that they didn't own the land they'd just bought.
by Colin Dickey via The New Republic on October 19, 2016
Cover of "Ghostland: An American History," made to look like a cemetery headstone.

The Family That Would Not Live

Writer Colin Dickey sets out across America to investigate America's haunted spaces in order to uncover what their ghost stories say about who we were, are, and will be.
by Colin Dickey via Longreads on October 5, 2016
Photo of three of the Cherry sisters: one playing a bass drum, standing between two in awkward dance poses.

The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters

How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.
by Jack El-Hai via Longreads on October 1, 2016
Children reading a storybook with a teacher.

What We've Learned In the 50 Years Since One Report Introduced the Black-White Achievement Gap

A Harvard education professor explains how far we've come in answering some of the most important questions in education since the famous Coleman report.
by Heather C. Hill via Chalkbeat on July 13, 2016
Log cabin

Little Government in the Big Woods

Melissa Gilbert's lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of 'Little House on the Prairie.'
by Mary Pilon via Longreads on July 1, 2016
Mural of Pauli Murray.

On Memorial Day, Weaponizing the American Flag

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Scalawag on May 30, 2016
Missouri State Hospital No. 3.

The Incredible Story of 'Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3'

In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.
by Gabrielle Bruney via Vice on May 13, 2016
Bill Clinton giving a speech.

How a Democrat Killed Welfare

Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.
by Premilla Nadasen via Jacobin on February 9, 2016
Dave Prater and two others

You Don't Know What You Mean To Me

Who was Dave Prater?
by Jonathan Bernstein via Oxford American on February 2, 2016
Gram Parsons.

Nudie and the Cosmic American

The iconic fusion of country and rock in Gram Parsons' legacy.
by Elyssa East via Oxford American on January 7, 2016

Prayers for Richard

Reflections on the life of Little Richard, the star who mistook a satellite for a ball of fire.
by David Ramsey via Oxford American on December 11, 2015
Interactive map of the U.S. Overland Trails, 1840 to 1860, showing cross-country migration routes.
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The Overland Trails 1840-1860

An interactive map of overland trails that settlers followed on their western journeys.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015
Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015
Photograph of a children's choir singing within the outlines of the United States.

How “Fifty Nifty United States” Became One of the Greatest Mnemonic Devices of All Time

How you, your friends, and Lin-Manuel Miranda all learned this catchy, state-naming tune.
by L. V. Anderson via Slate on November 30, 2015
Sketch on Rosie the Riveter working with a crying baby on her back.

Who Took Care of Rosie the Riveter's Kids?

Government-run childcare was crucial in enabling women’s employment during World War II, but today the program has largely been forgotten.
by Rhaina Cohen via The Atlantic on November 18, 2015
A drawing from a 1908 cookbook of an aspargus shortcake, a savory cake made with leftover aspargus and topped with hardboiled eggs.

An Economic History of Leftovers

Americans’ enthusiasm for reheating last night’s dinner has faded as the nation has prospered.
by Helen Zoe Veit via The Atlantic on October 7, 2015
George Washington's pewter bedpan

The Strange Saga of George Washington’s Bedpan

Even the most mundane of objects associated with the Founding Father have a story.
by Cassandra A. Good via Smithsonian Magazine on August 20, 2015

Prince Edward County's Long Shadow of Segregation

50 years after closing its schools to fight racial integration, a Virginia county still feels the effects.
by Kristen Green via The Atlantic on August 1, 2015

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.
by Peggy Solic via Origins on July 15, 2015
Black and white photo of Ornette Coleman.

Seeing Ornette Coleman

Coleman’s approach to improvisation shook twentieth-century jazz. It was a revolutionary idea that sounded like a folk song.
by Taylor Ho Bynum via The New Yorker on June 12, 2015

The Rise of ‘Mama’

Like most cultural shifts in language, the rise of white, upper-middle class women who call themselves ‘mama’ seemed to happen slowly, and then all at once.
by Elissa Strauss via Longreads on May 10, 2015

The Self-Made Man

The story of America’s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth.
by John Swansburg via Slate on September 29, 2014
Map of Sterling Heights

What Explains Michigan's Large Arab American Community?

Why has Michigan continued to draw so many immigrants from the Arab world, creating one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East?
by Sarah Cwiek via Michigan Radio on July 9, 2014
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