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How War Made the Cigarette

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on September 25, 2019

“Ulysses” on Trial

It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.
by Michael Chabon via New York Review of Books on September 13, 2019

The Credo Company

A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.
by Steven Brill via Highline on August 1, 2019
John Dalrymple

The Radical Roots of Free Speech

Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense.
by Chase Burghgrave, Laura Weinrib via Jacobin on July 25, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
by Jon Hale via The Conversation on July 24, 2019
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How Advocates can Defeat Trump’s Latest Assault on Asylum Seekers

Immigration activists helped give power to asylum protections once before. They can do it again.
by Carly Goodman, S. Deborah Kang, Yael Schacher via Made By History on July 18, 2019

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.
by Gregory H. Shill via The Atlantic on July 9, 2019

An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
by David A. Graham, Parker Richards, Adrienne Green, Cullen Murphy via The Atlantic on May 13, 2019

Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.
by Flint Taylor via Literary Hub on February 25, 2019
Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019
Airline ad featuring a stewardess doing striptease.

How Flight Attendants Organized Against Their Bosses to End Stereotyping 

The marketing of stewardesses’ bodies was long an integral part of airline marketing strategies.
by Gillian Frank, Lauren Gutterman via Jezebel on November 29, 2018

Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.
by Katie Notopoulos via BuzzFeed News on October 22, 2018

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley

Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.
by Victor Luckerson via The Ringer on May 18, 2018

Josef K. in Washington

A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
by David Luban via New York Review of Books on March 2, 2018
Chidren playing in a playground.

Children and Childhood

How changing gender norms and conceptions of childhood shaped modern child custody laws.
by Michael Grossberg via Child Custody Project on October 31, 2017

My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request

How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.
by Spenser Mestel via Longreads on September 20, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.
by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 2017
The front pages of major newspapers the day after the Greensboro Massacre.

Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on August 25, 2017

Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump

Remembering the switchboard operator who listened in on Cohn’s calls with Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlo Gambino, and Trump.
by Marcus Baram via The New Yorker on April 14, 2017

The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.
by Robert Lee via Slate on March 1, 2017

Claudette Colvin: 'A Teenage Rosa Parks'

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
by Radio Diaries via Radio Diaries on March 2, 2016

The Divorce Colony

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.
by April White via The Atavist on December 8, 2015
Elder M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither demonstrates for reparations for slavery.

The Thirteenth Amendment and a Reparations Program

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.
by Ramsin Canon via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 12, 2014
Thaddeus Stevens imagined as a boxer.

Remarkable Radical: Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer who never backed down from a fight.
by Steve Moyer via Humanities on November 1, 2012
Photograph of blues singer Robert Johnson, playing guitar, 1936.

Searching for Robert Johnson

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.
by Frank DiGiacomo via Vanity Fair on October 1, 2008
Armand Minthorn
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Bones of Dispute

Who owns the past? That is the subject of debate after the discovery of a human skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.
by MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1997
Map fof the San Francisco Bay area.

How California’s Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous People Impacts the Present Day

Unpacking the complexities surrounding Native authenticity.
by Dina Gilio-Whitaker via Literary Hub on October 9, 2025
Georgia Bulldog Football team warms up at their stadium.

A Historian’s Notes on College Football’s New Money Era

College football’s NIL era has freed athletes but fueled chaos, soaring costs, and fan backlash.
by James C. Cobb via Zócalo Public Square on September 18, 2025
Toddler getting a vaccine
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Vaccine Skepticism Is Reviving Preventable Diseases

We’re still dealing with the repercussions of a discredited 1998 study that sowed fear and skepticism about vaccines.
via Retro Report on August 28, 2025
President Johnson shaking hands with Martin Luther King Jr

Work in Progress: The Voting Rights Act

The often-overlooked institutions of the federal government truly do matter and so do the individuals who lead those institutions and give them direction.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Campaign Trails on August 4, 2025
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