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Pornotopia
In the mid-20th century, Playboy wasn't just an erotic magazine. It was an architectural movement as well.
by
Paul B. Preciado
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Public Books
on
October 11, 2019
The World-Class Photography of Ebony and Jet is Priceless History. It's Still Up For Sale.
There's a lot more than money at stake in the impending auction.
by
Allison Miller
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Perspectives on History
on
July 9, 2019
original
How America Thought About Refugees 70 Years Ago
And other gleanings from the 1949 run of the Saturday Evening Post.
by
Benjamin Breen
on
February 26, 2019
How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices
The librarians who are setting out to make sure the histories of marginalized communities aren't forgotten.
by
Rosie Knight
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BuzzFeed News
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December 30, 2018
“It Was Us Against Those Guys”: The Women Who Transformed Rolling Stone in the Mid-70s
How one 28-year-old feminist bluffed her way into running a copy department and made rock journalism a legitimate endeavor.
by
Jessica Hopper
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Vanity Fair
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August 28, 2018
New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike
On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”
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Sara Blair
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Literary Hub
on
June 13, 2018
The Lost World of the Middlebrow Tastemaker
Journalist Elizabeth Gordon had unsparing opinions about the inadequacy of both mainstream and elite notions of design.
by
Anthony Paletta
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The American Conservative
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June 8, 2018
When Salad Was Manly
Esquire, 1940: “Salads are really the man’s department... Only a man can make a perfect salad.”
by
Jessamyn Neuhaus
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Elizabeth Fakazis
,
Manisha Claire
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JSTOR Daily
on
June 6, 2018
National Geographic Has Always Depended on Exoticism
With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?
by
Rebecca Onion
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John Edwin Mason
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Slate
on
March 14, 2018
How a Group of Journalists Turned Hip-Hop Into a Literary Movement
Looking back at the golden era of rap writing.
by
Dean Van Nguyen
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Pitchfork
on
March 12, 2018
#MeToo? In 80 years, No American Woman Has Won Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ by Herself
The history of Time's 'Person of the Year' exemplifies the problem that led to this year's winner.
by
Philip Bump
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Washington Post
on
December 6, 2017
Theodore Dreiser’s New York
Teddy Dreiser tries to make it.
by
Mike Wallace
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The Paris Review
on
October 26, 2017
Jewish Heroes and Nazi Monsters
The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.
by
J. Hoberman
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Tablet
on
October 16, 2017
Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of Playboy
Perhaps the only true generalization to make about Hefner is that he is given too much credit for his role in American history.
by
Josephine Livingstone
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The New Republic
on
September 29, 2017
One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967
A riot represents people making history.
by
Nina Renata Aron
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Timeline
on
September 23, 2017
The Story Behind the First-Ever Fact-Checkers
Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.
by
Merrill Fabry
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TIME
on
August 24, 2017
'The Fatal Deadfall of Abolition'
Threatening the newly-freed Southern slaves.
by
John F. Ptak
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JF Ptak Science Books
on
July 31, 2017
Why the 'Goldwater Rule' Keeps Psychiatrists From Diagnosing at a Distance
Here's what to know about the man behind the longstanding rule.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
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TIME
on
July 27, 2017
How a Magazine Cover From the '70s Helped Wonder Woman Win Over Feminists
Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine's first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact.
by
Katie Kilkenny
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Pacific Standard
on
June 21, 2017
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Mother's Little Helper
How feminists transformed Valium from a wonder drug to a symbol of medical sexism.
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BackStory
on
May 20, 2016
Cuba Libre
Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.
by
Peter Kornbluh
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The Nation
on
March 23, 2015
The Modern Invention of Thanksgiving
The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.
by
Anne Blue Wills
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Livia Gershon
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JSTOR Daily
on
November 26, 2014
How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888)
Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.
by
Paul Collins
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The New Yorker
on
September 4, 2014
Was the Federalist Press Staid and Apolitical?
Quite the contrary. They used rhetoric to build a partisan community, and realized that parties needed to create and market identities, not simply agendas.
by
Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
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Commonplace
on
October 1, 2008
How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire
High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights.
by
James Marcus
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The New Yorker
on
June 2, 2025
The Raccoons Who Made Computer Magazine Ads Great
In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.
by
Harry McCracken
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Technologizer
on
April 22, 2025
The Sins and Sayings of E.W. Howe
A deeply skeptical, deeply American mind and its trail of sharp, clean sentences.
by
Steve Szilagyi
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3 Quarks Daily
on
April 11, 2025
Anvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland Marxism
Anvil's popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.
by
Marc Blanc
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Jacobin
on
February 23, 2025
How Pop Came Out of the Closet
Jon Savage’s “The Secret Public” traces the influence of queer artists on a hostile culture.
by
Samuel Clowes Huneke
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The New Republic
on
February 14, 2025
Bad Beef
Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.
by
Austin McCoy
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Public Books
on
January 9, 2025
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