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Le Marron Incconu, a statue of an enslaved man with a conch shell, dedicated to the abolishment of slavery.

Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.
by Steven Hahn via Boston Review on April 22, 2021
Joseph McCarthy appearing on CBS television
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The Cold War on TV: Joseph McCarthy vs. Edward R. Murrow

In the heat of the Cold War, Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade became a media sensation.
via Retro Report on April 12, 2021
Nancy Reagan standing behind a railing.

Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis

The former first lady fought the conservative Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic.
by Karen Tumulty via The Atlantic on April 12, 2021
An astronaut on the Moon standing next to the American flag
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How the Cold War Arms Race Fueled a Sprint to the Moon

After the Soviet Union sent the first human safely into orbit, the U.S. government doubled down on its effort to win the race to the moon.
via Retro Report on April 11, 2021
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Fear Itself

We're not generally at our best when frightened. It's no surprise, then, that some of the ugliest episodes in American history (but also, some pretty great films) have been driven by fear.
Eric Sheppard standing in front of two log cabins in the Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp was a Refuge for the Enslaved. Their Descendants Want to Preserve It.

A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.
by Meagan Flynn via Washington Post on April 11, 2021
Linda Kay Klein as a teenager
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Shamed Over Sex, a Generation Confronts the Past

Former followers of an evangelical “purity” movement that promoted a strict view of abstinence are grappling with aftershocks.
via Retro Report on April 6, 2021
Flag waving supporters celebrate D.C. Statehood Week
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The Battle Against D.C. Statehood is Rooted in Anti-Black Racism

Understanding this history helps make the case for D.C. as the 51st state.
by Kyla Sommers via Made By History on March 22, 2021
Illustration of the assassination of president Lincoln in Ford's Theatre

We Lionize Abraham Lincoln – But John Wilkes Booth Still Embodies a Part of America’s Soul

How the insurrection on January 6th brought a legendary assassin back to life.
by Bennett Parten via Public Seminar on March 18, 2021
The Black Panthers

Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today

In 1971, armed officers went to a house occupied by Black Panther activists, marking a policing trajectory toward a more militarized response to Black activism.
by Paul Ringel via The Conversation on February 8, 2021
A newspaper clipping from the Aug. 7, 1958, issue of the Enlightener, a Black newspaper in Wichita shows the Dockum Drug Store lunch counter sit-in, one of the earliest in the United States.

The Brave, Forgotten Kansas Lunch Counter Sit-in That Helped Change America

The 1958 civil rights protest by Black teens led to the end of segregation at lunch counters all over the state and inspired a wave of sit-ins across the country.
by Kate Torgovnick May via Retropolis on February 6, 2021
photograph of a woman from a carpeta

A New Photo Exhibit Looks at Decades of FBI Surveillance on American Citizens

A new book shares a cautionary tale of the American surveillance state.
by Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Pia Peterson via BuzzFeed News on January 29, 2021
A Seminole man puts his hand inside the mouth of an alligator

How Florida’s Seminole Tribe Transformed Alligator Wrestling Into a Symbol of Independence

Once a means of survival, and then an exploitative spectacle, the sport can also embody a synergy with a top predator in Florida’s changing landscape.
by Adam Piron, Murat Oztaskin, Adam Khalil via The New Yorker on January 27, 2021
Maggie and Kate Fox

Why Did Everyone in the 19th Century Think They Could Talk to the Dead?

Kevin Dann on the spiritualists of New York City and beyond.
by Kevin Dann via Literary Hub on January 5, 2021
A Japanese mother and daughter, farmworkers in California, photographed in 1937 by Dorothea Lange

Whitewashing the Great Depression

How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image.
by Sarah Boxer via The Atlantic on November 15, 2020

The Rise of the Bystander as a Complicit Historical Actor

How the presumption of bystanders’ responsibility crystallized into the predominant opinion.
by Dennis Klein via Psyche on November 11, 2020

How Americans Came to Distrust Science

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust requires confronting those arguments head on.
by Andrew Jewett via Boston Review on November 2, 2020

A Possible Majority

A political history of the present moment.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Dissent on October 27, 2020
A car being made in a car factory

Talking About Auto Work Means Talking About Constant, Brutal Violence

It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.
by Jeremy Milloy, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on October 23, 2020
A magazine cover featuring a man with a rocket launcher.
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Fear of the "Pussification" of America

On Cold War men's adventure magazines and the antifeminist tradition in American popular culture.
by Gregory A. Daddis via HNN on October 11, 2020
abstract picture of buildings

City, Island

What does the way we mourn, remember, and care for our dead say about us?
by Alexandra Marvar via The Believer on October 1, 2020
merpeople

Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

An excerpt from a new book that explores the threat of made-up monsters in the age of imperial conquest.
by Vaughn Scribner via Literary Hub on September 28, 2020

Blood & Fire: The Bombing of Wall Street, 100 Years Later

When a converted ice cream wagon blew up in Wall Street, it was the loudest burst in a war between the Federal government and American Anarchists.
by Nathan Ward via CrimeReads on September 16, 2020
Rutherford B. Hayes and Donald Trump.
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The Election From Our Past That Blares a Warning for 2020

A contested presidential election in 1876 produced a devastating compromise.
by Richard Kreitner via Made By History on September 11, 2020

Officer Friendly and the Invention of the “Good Cop”

If your childhood vision of police is all pet rescues and tinfoil badges, Friendly’s “copaganda” did its job.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 27, 2020
People wearing masks; one has a sign that reads "Wear a mask or go to jail."

The Last Pandemic

Using history to guide us in the difficult present.
by E. Thomas Ewing via Humanities on August 16, 2020
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Polio on Trial

What if there is a vaccine, but not everyone gets it? Exploring the lessons of the polio vaccine's shortcomings as we address a new public health crisis today.
via Future Of America's Past on August 10, 2020

Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace

Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and the man who delivered them.
by Radio Diaries via Radio Diaries on August 6, 2020
Painting of a worried child and a despairing mother.

With Friends Like These

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
by Julia Rose Kraut via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 4, 2020
Photo of an elderly African American man seated on a wicker chair in front of a porch trellis..

The Living Son of a Slave

The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being, Daniel Smith is a flesh-and-blood reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago
by Sydney Trent via Retropolis on July 27, 2020
A photo of law enforcement emerging from a hazy cloud on a city street.

Trump Has Brought America’s Dirty Wars Home

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.
by Stuart Schrader via The New Republic on July 21, 2020
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