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Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards

A schoolteacher created the popular board game, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children.
by Alexander B. Joy via The Atlantic on July 28, 2019
Image of Sergeant Pete Thibodeau during the War on Terror.

The Sum of All Beards

How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the War on Terror.
by Adam Weinstein, Adrian Bonenberger via The New Republic on June 4, 2019
Daveed Diggs and Lin Manuel Miranda on stage in the musical Hamilton.

Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical "Hamilton"

"But he'd have to acknowledge that the soul of his country is southern; the soul of his country is black."
by Randall Kenan, Ginnie Hsu via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2019
Rod Serling at the typewriter, at his Westport, Connecticut, home in 1956.

An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to 'The Twilight Zone'

His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.
by Jackie Mansky via Smithsonian on April 1, 2019
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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.

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."
by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019

America’s Most Famous Family Feuds

Many of America’s most notorious feuds have their roots in the Civil War.
by Andy Warner, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on February 19, 2019
Title page of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."
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Anonymous Criticism Helped Make America Great

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on September 8, 2018
Dillingham Commission members.

The 41-Volume Government Report That Turned Immigration into a Problem

In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out 'undesirable' newcomers.
by Robert F. Zeidel via Zócalo Public Square on July 16, 2018

'What Soldiers Are for': Jersey Boys Wait for War

Essays published in a high school paper reflect the boys' efforts to prepare themselves for fighting in the Civil War.
by James Marten via Muster on June 19, 2018
Title screen of the film "1983: The Brink of Apocalypse."

Standing on the Brink: The Secret War Scare of 1983

Remembering a time when a toxic cocktail of threats, fear, and misunderstanding nearly led us down the path to Armageddon.
by Jill Kastner via The Nation on May 31, 2018

Before Parkland, Santa Fe and Columbine…There Was Concord High

In 1985, a 16-year-old dropout showed up to school with a shotgun. Everyone said it was just a fluke.
by Natalia Megas via Narratively on May 23, 2018
A picture of the White House

Forget About It

Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.
by Corey Robin via Harper’s on April 1, 2018
Cover of Newsweek with African American fist and hand reaching up, with the title "The Negro in America: What Must Be Done."

The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened

Released 50 years ago, the report concluded that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.
by Alice George via Smithsonian on March 1, 2018

The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right

The enduring popularity of "The Camp of the Saints" sheds light on nativists' historical opposition to immigration.
by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on February 2, 2018

Seeing Martin Luther King as a Human Being

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on January 15, 2018

Cancer and Captivity: Reflections on Affliction in Puritan and Modern Times

It seemed to me that the conditions of cancer and captivity shared physical, emotional, and spiritual correspondences.
by Zabelle Stodola via Commonplace on November 21, 2017
Reagan signing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.
by Vesla M. Weaver via Boston Review on October 24, 2017
Picasso's painting "Massacre in Korea."

Don’t You Hear Her?

The enduring Korean War.
by Jessie Kindig via n+1 on August 18, 2017

Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 31, 2017
Syringe and pills.
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How Sensationalism Compounds the Opioid Crisis

Instead of playing on emotions, we need to destigmatize addiction.
by Claire D. Clark via Made By History on July 5, 2017

The Miseducation of Henry Adams

Henry Adams's classic autobiography speaks to concerns of privilege, failure, and progress in his rapidly changing world.
by Michael Lindgren via The Millions on June 30, 2017
A young thomas edison poses next to a phonograph

How 19th Century Techno-Skeptics Ridiculed Thomas Edison

At his peak, newspapers loved to tease the inventor. They also feared him.
by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on February 28, 2017
A memorial to those killed located in El Mozote, El Salvador. Archbishop Romero Trust.

Remember El Mozote

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.
by Branko Marcetic, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on December 12, 2016
The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

The Most Contentious Presidential Transition in American History

Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?
by Jon Grinspan, James M. McPherson, Peter Feuerherd, Frederic Bancroft via JSTOR Daily on November 22, 2016
The Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching reenactment.

A Lynching in Georgia: The Living Memorial to America’s History of Racist Violence

Activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.
by Peter C. Baker via The Guardian on November 2, 2016

Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place

The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?
by Daniela Blei via Smithsonian on June 23, 2016
Sign reading "Is your child vaccinated?"
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Contagion

How prior generations of Americans responded to the threat of infectious disease.
via BackStory on February 19, 2016
Children in New York City waiting in line for immunization shots, 1944

Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective

The vaccination skepticism of today is rooted in postwar social movements, prompting a new generation of parents and children to question drugs and doctors.
by Elena Conis via Teaching American History on August 1, 2015
Dr. Ossian Sweet

Dr. Ossian Sweet's Black Life Mattered

It has been 90 years since Ossian Sweet tried to move into his new home; since police stood by and did nothing as a mob threw rocks.
by David F. Krugler, Victoria W. Wolcott, Heather Bourbeau, Leslie Brown, Anne Valk, James W. McElhaney, Lance Freeman via JSTOR Daily on June 17, 2015
Photograph of Boston Corbett

The Insane Story of the Guy Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln

Meet Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hatmaker who was John Wilkes Booth's Jack Ruby.
by Bill Jensen via Washingtonian on April 13, 2015
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