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“Victory Gardens” Are Back in Vogue. But What Are We Fighting This Time?

“Growing your own vegetables is great; beating Nazis is great. I think we’re all nostalgic for a time when anything was that simple.”
by Anastasia Day, Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 11, 2020

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
by Amy Hoffman via Boston Review on April 2, 2020

How Some Cities ‘Flattened the Curve’ During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic.
by Nina Strochlic, Riley D. Champine via National Geographic on March 27, 2020

When Restaurants Close, Americans Lose Much More Than a Meal

Restaurants have always been about more than feeding city residents. During the 1918 flu pandemic, they were kept open as sites of social solidarity.
by Rebecca L. Spang via The Conversation on March 20, 2020
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The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

William James, Charles Peirce, and the questions that roiled them.
by John Kaag, Douglas Anderson via Literary Hub on January 9, 2020
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When the Park Ranger Was Not Your Friend

Early 20th century National Park Service Rangers were a notoriously rough-and-tumble lot.
by Joseph Hayes, Alice B. Kelly Pennaz, Mark Hufstetler, George Jaramillo via JSTOR Daily on January 18, 2019
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his writing desk in Vermont.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Hid Out in a Tiny Vermont Village

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's best work was done in isolation, a long way from Soviet Russia.
by Ted Lawrence via Humanities on July 17, 2018

The Data Proves That School Segregation Is Getting Worse

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.
by Alvin Chang via Vox on March 5, 2018

How Folk Rock Helped Crack the Iron Curtain

Fifty years ago, 160 young Americans defied State Department orders and partied on the streets of Moscow. The Cold War would never be the same.
by Emily Ludolph via Narratively on October 4, 2017
A woman lies dying of influenza while a girl covers her eyes behind her.

The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia

Stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.
by Howard Markel, J. Alexander Navarro via University Of Michigan Library on September 19, 2016
Missouri State Hospital No. 3.

The Incredible Story of 'Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3'

In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.
by Gabrielle Bruney via Vice on May 13, 2016
Aerial view of Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Why Are America’s Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?

Suburban corporate campuses have isolated themselves by design from the communities their products were supposed to impact.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on April 8, 2016
Puppeteer Burr Tillstrom poses with puppets and a small Christmas tree on the set of his television program.

Together With the Kuklapolitans

In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.
by Jacqui Shine via Slate on February 16, 2015

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