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The School Shooting That Austin Forgot

In 1978, an eighth grader from a prominent Austin family killed his teacher. His classmates are still haunted by what happened that terrible day and after.

by Robert Draper via Texas Monthly on March 18, 2020

Spoonfuls of different types of sugar: white and brown, granulated and cubed.

Corn, Coke, and Convenience Food

How high-fructose corn syrup became an American staple.

by Hope Jahren via Literary Hub on March 6, 2020

A photo of William Faulkner

The Road to Glory: Faulkner’s Hollywood Years, 1932–1936

Lisa C. Hickman reconstructs William Faulkner’s tumultuous Hollywood sojourn of 1932–1936.

by Lisa C. Hickman via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 27, 2020

Woodcut depicting British soldiers shooting at colonists in the Boston Massacre.

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.

by Serena Zabin via Literary Hub on February 20, 2020

Collage of newspaper clippings about Jacqueline Smith's death.

A Christmas Abortion

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.

by Gillian Frank via NOTCHES on December 15, 2015

A mother holding her infant child in her lap.

Before the Ward

On the movement away from midwifery towards hospital births.

via BackStory on May 10, 2013

James Baldwin

The Making and Unmaking of James Baldwin

On the private and public lives of the author of “The Fire Next Time” and “Giovanni’s Room.”

by Hilton Als via The New Yorker on February 9, 1998

Who Owns Anne Frank?

The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?

by Cynthia Ozick via The New Yorker on September 28, 1997

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