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Closed fist with faces of Judith Shklar, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Lionel Trilling

Cold War Liberalism Is Still With Us. Is That a Good Thing?

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.
by Jan-Werner Müller, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Nicolas Guilhot, Penny Marie von Eschen, Vaughn Rasberry via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 2, 2023
Another text is visible beneath a ripped piece of writing

How America's First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon

The Puritans outlawed Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan" because it was critical of the society they were building in colonial New England.
by Colleen Connolly via Smithsonian on October 2, 2023
Woman leading a group of twelve other women in floor exercises.

Fit Nation

A conversation about "the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession."
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Lara Freidenfelds via Nursing Clio on September 27, 2023
Asian women opera performers dressed as entertainers holding fans

A Reimagination of 'Madama Butterfly' Isn't Radical, Says Artist Phil Chan

The famed opera has been criticized for its racist portrayals of Asian-Americans.
by Arun Rath, Phil Chan via WGBH on September 14, 2023
Exhibit

“All Persons Born or Naturalized in the United States...”

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.
Betty Friedan

The Abandonment of Betty Friedan

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?
by Rachel Shteir via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 11, 2023
Photo of a woman surfing

How Men Muscled Women Out of Surfing

Why is surfing still stuck in the 1960s when women have always done it?
by Mindy Pennybacker via The Atlantic on September 6, 2023
Portraits of Isabella Graham and Catherine Ferguson

Where Are the Women? Past Choices That Shaped the Historical Record

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.
by Amanda Bowie Moniz via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2023
At the microphone: Louis Armstrong, surrounded by his orchestra, 1931

De-Satch-uration

Louis Armstrong’s complicated relationship with New Orleans.
by Ricky Riccardi via 64 Parishes on August 31, 2023
Illustration of someone walking up stairs made up of the working class.

How the War on Poverty Stalled

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on August 28, 2023
Man spinning record player with woman in the background

Making Music Male

How did record collecting and stereophile culture come to exclude women as consumers and experts?
by Ashawnta Jackson, Roy Shuker, Keir Keightley via JSTOR Daily on July 24, 2023
Shadow of Jason Aldean performing on stage.

Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' Is Part of a Long Legacy with a Very Dark Side

The country song that pits idyllic country life against the corruption of the city is a well-worn trope. Aldean's song reveals the dark heart of the tradition.
by Amanda Marie Martinez via NPR on July 22, 2023
The male-dominated field of pop songwriting.

Women are Superstars on Stage, but Still Rarely Get to Write Songs

Songwriting credits since 1958, broken down by gender.
by Chris Dalla Riva, Ashley Cai via The Pudding on July 20, 2023
Harry Truman speaking at the 1948 Democratic National Convention.

The 1948 Democratic National Convention Is the Missing Link in Civil Rights History

Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality
by Samuel G. Freedman via Smithsonian on July 19, 2023
Above view of residential areas in Richmond, Virginia.

How the Former Confederate Capital Slashed Black Voting Power, Overnight

Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.
by Leila Barghouty via Retropolis on July 9, 2023
Kentucky family with hookworm standing in front of their house.

The American Murderer

Hookworm eradication efforts, along with the development of institutionalized public health, often neglected the health of the Black community.
by Katie R. Gibson via Nursing Clio on June 28, 2023
Title page of garden club cookbook.

Tahir’s Tamales: Syrian Cooking in the American South

Community cookbooks provide a perspective on the American melting pot.
by Andrew P. Haley via Perspectives on History on June 21, 2023
Senator Joseph McCarthy (left) during the Army-McCarthy hearings, with Pvt. G. David Schine (center) and Roy Cohn (right), June 7, 1954, in Washington, DC.

McCarthyite Laws Targeting Leftists Are Still on the Books Across the Country

Communists were excluded from an Oklahoma Pride festival recently, a reminder of how easily the Red Scare’s mechanisms for state repression can be revived.
by Liza Featherstone via Jacobin on June 20, 2023
Crowd of Black and White workers walking.

Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.
by Zak Cheney-Rice via Intelligencer on June 12, 2023
Retro style American diner.

The Myth of the American Diner

Diners have always been considered a model of culinary democratization in the American public consciousness, but can they really be for everyone?
by Jaya Saxena via Eater on June 12, 2023
Goldfish bowl superimposed on close-up of eye.

Queer History Now!

“Queer” has experienced a loss of meaning and a curdling of political potential. To reinvigorate it, we need a new approach to history.
by Ben Miller via The Baffler on June 7, 2023
Participants in a YWCA camp for girls in Highland Beach, Maryland, in 1930.

When Private Beaches Served as a Refuge for the Chesapeake Bay's Black Elite

During the Jim Crow era, working-class Washingtonians' recreation options were far more limited—and dangerous.
by CJ Blair via Smithsonian on June 7, 2023
Painting of a girl with a basketball looking out a window.

Lady Vols Country

How college basketball coach Pat Summitt transformed women's sports.
by Jessica Wilkerson via Oxford American on June 6, 2023
A woman shows off her pride-themed nails.
partner

Gay Bars Are Disappearing. Their Past Holds Keys To Their Future.

Live entertainment, all genders and straight people are back—and were here in the beginning
by Greggor Mattson via Made By History on June 2, 2023
Gelringer family, who were later deported to Auschwitz.

The Millions We Failed to Save

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.
by Ruth Franklin via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023
Collage of archival documents, map and landscape photo of homestead site, contemporary homestead site and tree photographs.

The Many Legacies of Letitia Carson

An effort to memorialize the homestead of one of Oregon’s first Black farmers illuminates the land’s complicated history.
by Jaclyn Moyer via High Country News on June 1, 2023
James Dent Walker.

A Major Group of Family Genealogists Apologizes For Past Racism

The National Genealogical Society is one of the oldest, largest groups dedicated to helping families trace their ancestries.
by Sydney Trent via Retropolis on May 31, 2023
A man speaking to a veteran.

Treason Made Odious Again

Reflections from the Naming Commission, and the front lines of the army's war on the Lost Cause.
by Connor Williams via Muster on May 30, 2023
Transgender woman marching in a pride parade.
partner

Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions

More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.
via Retro Report on May 30, 2023
Two female U.S. Army soldiers relax on an army vehicle in Iraq.

The Iraq War’s Legacies for Women in Combat

The armed forces continue to grapple with integrating women into an institution historically designed for men.
by Kara Dixon Vuic via Process: A Blog for American History on May 25, 2023
Methodist Episcopal Church leaders: five white men and one Black man.

Black Methodists, White Church

How freedmen navigated an unofficially segregated Methodist Episcopal Church.
by Paul William Harris via OUPblog on May 22, 2023
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