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The 150-Year-Old Comstock Act Could Transform the Abortion Debate
Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail.
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Ellen Wexler
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Smithsonian
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June 15, 2023
Deep States
The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.
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Wilfred M. McClay
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Claremont Review of Books
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May 31, 2023
Why the Age of Revolution Loved the Classical World
Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty.
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Francesca Langer
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Aeon
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May 30, 2023
The Largely Forgotten Book Ban Case That Went Up to the Supreme Court
Library book bans are fueling national fights and a new Florida lawsuit. But only one case has come before the Supreme Court: Island Trees v. Pico.
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Anthony Aycock
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Retropolis
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May 20, 2023
The Great American Poet Who Was Named After a Slave Ship
A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.
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Tiya Miles
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The Atlantic
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April 22, 2023
Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking
How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.
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Ava Purkiss
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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April 17, 2023
A Degenerate Assemblage
How Charles Lamb and his collection of well-loved books inspired a generation of American collectors.
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Anthony Grafton
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London Review of Books
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April 13, 2023
The Spirit of Appomattox
Why is Shelby Foote's Civil War subject to so much contemporary debate?
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Jonathan Clarke
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The Hedgehog Review
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March 1, 2023
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Why a Spy Balloon Inspires Such Fear and Fascination
When it comes to protecting our personal privacy, we’re not in Kansas anymore.
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Alison Byerly
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HNN
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February 19, 2023
"The Crucible" and John and Elizabeth Proctor of Salem
It is worth digging a bit deeper into the family matters between John and Elizabeth.
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Benjamin Ray
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Commonplace
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February 7, 2023
When Perry Miller Invented America
In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.
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Ed Simon
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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February 5, 2023
UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley
Discovery of Phillis Wheatley's earliest known elegy in a commonplace book gives us important insights into her early life and how her work circulated.
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Bethany Bump
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SUNY Albany
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January 17, 2023
When the Muppets Moved to Moscow
A new book details the tangled tale of "Ulitsa Sezam," a "Sesame Street" spinoff that aired until visions of Russia's democratic future faltered.
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Brigit Katz
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Smithsonian
on
October 14, 2022
Did Emily Dickinson Have A Boston Accent? An Investigation
An exploration of the potential effects of regional accents on poetry and slant-rhyme.
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Kelsey McKinney
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Defector
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October 11, 2022
The Illusion of the First Person
The personal essay is the purest expression of the lie that individual subjectivity exists prior to the social formations that gave rise to it.
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Merve Emre
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New York Review of Books
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October 11, 2022
Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’
A new book explores the final days of Ralph Waldo Emerson - traveling from Concord to California, and beyond.
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Christopher Benfey
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New York Review of Books
on
September 29, 2022
Maternal Grief in Black and White
Examining enslaved mothers and antislavery literature on the eve of war.
by
Cassandra Berman
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Nursing Clio
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September 22, 2022
The Fire This Time
How James Baldwin speaks to lethal myths of white innocence—and why his work belongs in public-school classrooms.
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Sana Hashmi
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The Forum
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August 30, 2022
The Scandalous Roots of the Amusement Park
The "Pleasure Gardens" of the 18th Century captivated the public with a heady mix of fantasy and vice.
by
Cath Pound
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BBC News
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August 21, 2022
The Building Blocks of History
A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.
by
Walker Mimms
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Richard Cohen
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The Nation
on
August 17, 2022
The History of the Family Bomb Shelter
Throughout history, the family bomb shelter has reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties, and cynicism of the nuclear age.
by
Thomas Bishop
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Zócalo Public Square
on
April 18, 2022
A Prophecy Unfulfilled?
What a new book and six companion videos have to say about the fate of Black classical music in America.
by
Mark N. Grant
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The American Scholar
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April 2, 2022
Contending Forces
Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.
by
Tarisai Ngangura
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The Believer
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March 29, 2022
The Stories of the Bronx
"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" is a vibrant cultural history that looks beyond pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect.
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Emily Raboteau
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New York Review of Books
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March 17, 2022
The Book That Unleashed American Grief
John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.
by
Deborah Cohen
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The Atlantic
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March 8, 2022
Visions of Waste
"The American Scene" is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.
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Peter Brooks
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New York Review of Books
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March 3, 2022
The Influences of the Underworld: Nineteenth-Century Brothel Guides, Cards, and City Directories
Brothel guides tended to be small, making them easy to conceal. They also mimicked other publications to make it easier to hide the guides’ true purpose.
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Brittney Ingersoll
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Commonplace
on
March 1, 2022
American Captivity
The captivity narrative as creation myth.
by
Ed Simon
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The Hedgehog Review
on
March 1, 2022
“Pajamas from Spirit Land”: Searching for William James
After the passing of William James, mediums across the US began receiving messages from the late Harvard professor.
by
Alicia Puglionesi
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The Public Domain Review
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February 23, 2022
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Close your eyes and imagine you’re married to Ernest Hemingway. Now, imagine it twice as bad, and you’ll be approaching the life story of Mary Welsh Hemingway.
by
Anne Margaret Daniel
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The Spectator
on
February 20, 2022
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