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Father’s Day Once Was Highly Political — and Could Become So Again
The holiday’s lack of history allowed activists to give it meaning after America’s divorce laws changed.
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Kristin Celello
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Made By History
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June 19, 2022
Reflections on Juneteenth: Black Civil Rights and the Influence of Fatherhood
From MLK to Obama, advancers for civil rights were driven by their fatherhood and dreams of better life for their own children.
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Wayne Washington
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The Palm Beach Post
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June 15, 2022
The Forgotten History of Father's Day
Find out how one woman asked to recognize the fathers in her town and inspired others.
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Aurelia C. Scott
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Old Farmer's Almanac
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April 28, 2022
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Britney Spears’s Plight Reflects a Long History of Men Controlling Women Stars
Since the 19th century, men have served as gatekeepers in the entertainment industry, controlling women’s careers.
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Sara Lampert
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Made By History
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February 24, 2021
The Mod Squad, Kojak, Real-Life Cops, and Me
What I relearned (about well-meaning liberalism, race, my late father, and my young gay self) rewatching the TV cop shows of my 1970s youth.
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Mark Edward Harris
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Vulture
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September 8, 2020
The Broken Road of Peggy Wallace Kennedy
All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?
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Frye Gaillard
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The Bitter Southerner
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January 6, 2020
“My Dear Master”: An Enslaved Blacksmith’s Letters to a President
This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.
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Adam Rothman
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Library of Congress
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February 5, 2019
The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch
Lee’s beloved father figure was a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway. Is he still a hero?
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Casey N. Cep
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The New Yorker
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December 10, 2018
How Reconsidering Atticus Finch Makes Us Reconsider America
A new book offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character.
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Joseph Crespino
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Brandon Tensley
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Pacific Standard
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October 10, 2018
What It Means to Be a 'Good' Father in America Has Changed. Here's How.
"I think the key change for the invention of the modern father is in the 1920s," says historian Robert L. Griswold.
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Olivia B. Waxman
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TIME
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June 15, 2018
Buying Your Dad a Gift Is Why Father's Day Exists
Buying a necktie for your dad is a stereotypical way to celebrate Father's Day, but it's in keeping with the holiday's history.
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Erin Blakemore
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TIME
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June 15, 2017
The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr
The fate of Aaron Burr's daughter remains a topic of contention.
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Hadley Meares
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Atlas Obscura
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October 7, 2016
Fandom's Great Divide
The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.
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Emily Nussbaum
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The New Yorker
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March 31, 2014
Who Was the Most Famous of All?
The tale of the long forgotten Joseph Jefferson, who revolutionized character acting in 19th century American theater.
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Robert Gottlieb
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New York Review of Books
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October 22, 2009
Mythologizing Fatherhood
Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.
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Ralph LaRossa
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National Council On Family Relations
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March 1, 2009
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Gordon Parks' Diary of a Harlem Family
Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.
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Public Broadcast Laboratory
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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March 3, 1968
Legacies of Teacher Persecution and Resistance
Historian Jane Smith understands her childhood differently after discovering that her father had been pushed out of his profession during the Red Scare.
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Joan Wallach Scott
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Academe
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September 9, 2025
The Many Lives of James Baldwin
A new biography shows that his life was more complex than his viral fame suggests.
by
John Livesey
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Jacobin
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August 17, 2025
The Real Bill Buckley
Even some liberals toasted William F. Buckley Jr. as a patrician gentleman. A long-awaited new biography corrects that record.
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Nicole Hemmer
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Democracy Journal
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June 17, 2025
The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump
The political vision that William F. Buckley helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.
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Jack McCordick
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The New Republic
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June 3, 2025
How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America
On the early history of Black participation in America's pastime.
by
Gerald Early
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Literary Hub
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May 1, 2025
Kennedy Family Values
Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?
by
Alan Pell Crawford
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The American Conservative
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January 25, 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?
by
Ann Neumann
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The Baffler
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January 6, 2025
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
Black Earth
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved—and is reclaiming his family’s story and the soil beneath his feet.
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Christina Cooke
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The Bitter Southerner
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November 25, 2024
"A Long Way to Go and a Short Time to Get There"
In the 1970s, trucker films like "Smokey and the Bandit" celebrated rebellious, working-class solidarity and freedom, with complex politics at play.
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Adrian Daub
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Dreams in the Which House
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November 3, 2024
Eroticize the Hood
A new book revamps Newark's reputation as unsexy, violent, destitute, defiantly declaring it “a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.”
by
José Sanchez
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n+1
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October 8, 2024
Revisiting New York’s Historic Abortion Law in “Deciding Vote”
Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions.
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Robert Lyons
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Jeremy Workman
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Linnea Feldman Emison
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The New Yorker
on
November 29, 2023
The Biggest Vietnam War Story that Americans Don’t Talk About
South Korea is finally being held to account for the carnage its mercenary troops inflicted on Vietnamese civilians. No one seems to be reckoning with our complicity.
by
John Summers
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Boston Globe
on
August 11, 2023
Pathologies of a President
A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?
by
Adam Hochschild
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New Statesman
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June 19, 2023
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