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Image from book cover of "Petroleum and Progress in Iran."

There Will Be War

U.S.-Iranian relations, the interrelationship between Iranian development and the global oil market, and the future of economic warfare.
by Michael Brenes, Gregory Brew via Warfare And Welfare on February 1, 2023
Painting of soldiers on the front.

How They Paid for the War

In World War II, the US had a planned economy. Its principles were similar to MMT.
by Sam Levey via Strange Matters on January 27, 2023
Bike helmets and traffic signs.

The Cult of Bike Helmets

The history—and danger—of a modern safety obsession.
by Marion Renault via Slate on January 16, 2023
Christmas lights and decor
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Christmas Lights — Brought to You By a Jew From the Muslim World

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.
by Devin E. Naar via Made By History on December 21, 2022
Cartoon of Buckminster Fuller with spirals in his glasses and hands out as if hypnotizing the reader.

Space-Age Magus

From beginning to end, experts saw through Buckminster Fuller’s ideas and theories. Why did so many people come under his spell?
by James Gleick via New York Review of Books on November 3, 2022
Birds-eye view map of Johnstown, New York.

The Stories We Give Ourselves

I wish I’d asked my grandfather more questions.
by Brittany Thomas via Contingent on August 26, 2022
Fired Starbucks employees in Memphis celebrate the result of a vote to unionize one of the company’s stores.
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Women Have Always Been Key To the Labor Movement

Solidarity between men and women workers is crucial to advancing the cause of workers in America.
by Amy Mackin via Made By History on August 24, 2022
Photo of officer candidates of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps start off their day with a calisthenics drill wearing fatigue uniforms at Fort Des Moines on Aug. 8, 1942. (AP)
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The Military Has Long Had Ties With The Fashion Industry

The new Army bra is the latest chapter in a longtime partnership.
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox via Made By History on August 22, 2022
Utica, New York

How Utica Became a City Where Refugees Came to Rebuild

Utica became a refugee magnet by accident.
by Susan Hartman via Literary Hub on June 9, 2022
Paul Thompson photograph of Staten Island Shipbuilding Company interior view, early 1900s, PK 4119, Staten Island Museum Photo Collection, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, New York.

Crisis, Disease, Shortage, And Strike: Shipbuilding On Staten Island In World War I

How an industry responded to the needs of workers and of the federal government during a time of rapid mobilization for wartime production.
by Faith D'Alessandro via The Gotham Center on April 19, 2022
Artistic depiction meant to represent the global supply chain. At center is planet Earth, which has a hole in the middle. Earth is surrounded by 3 intersecting rings of various colors. The rings depict freight transport (transporting goods by rail, sea, and truck).

How We Broke the Supply Chain

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.
by David Dayden, Rakeen Mabud via The American Prospect on January 31, 2022
Statue of Stonewall Jackson, on its side in slings and propped up by tires, in front of its graffiti-covered pedestal.

What the 1619 Project Got Wrong

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.
by James Oakes via Catalyst on December 17, 2021
A naval cap with Soviet and American flags beneath the Pepsi logo

The Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Soviet Navy

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.
by Paul Musgrave via Foreign Policy on November 27, 2021
President Madison ending the Embargo Act cartoon

James Madison and the Debilitating American Tendency to Make Everything About the Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was the reason for Madison and Hamilton's breakup.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on October 11, 2021
A woman setting up a picnic outside a pink car

The Sorry History of Car Design for Women

A landscape architect of the 1950s predicted that lady drivers would want pastel-colored pavement on the interstate.
by Ashawnta Jackson via JSTOR Daily on June 29, 2021
Newsies smoking at Skeeter's Branch.

Lewis Hine, Photographer of the American Working Class

Lewis Hine captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life in the early twentieth century.
by Billy Anania via Jacobin on June 8, 2021
Detail of Anti-Slavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts (c1845) by Susan Torrey Merritt. Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago

New England Kept Slavery, But Not Its Profits, At a Distance

Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told.
by Mark A. Peterson via Aeon on May 3, 2021
A collage featuring pictures from the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the 1920s, including people wearing masks and nurses on one side and flappers on the other.

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.
by Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on May 3, 2021

Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country

Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.
by Justin H. Vassallo via Boston Review on May 1, 2021
Eli Lilly and Company. “Principal Office and Laboratories, Indianapolis, U.S.A.” Ink on paper, from the Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 1919. Via Wikimedia Commons.

How To Make An Oligopoly

A seven-point memo proposing control of the global insulin market.
by Brittany McWilliams via Contingent on April 18, 2021
Pills in a week organizer.
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Drug Companies Keep Merging. Why That’s Bad For Consumers and Innovation.

Over 30 years, dramatic consolidation has meant higher prices, fewer treatment options and less incentive to innovate.
by Robin Feldman via Made By History on April 6, 2021
A worker entering the U.S. Steel Clairton Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania.

A Rust Belt City’s New Working Class

Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on March 31, 2021
Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh

The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
by Gabriel Winant, Nick Serpe via Dissent on March 18, 2021
The ocean

Chemical Warfare’s Home Front

Since World War I we’ve been solving problems with dangerous chemicals that introduce new problems.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2021
Collage of FSA and OWI photographs
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Photogrammar

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.
by Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold via American Panorama on February 10, 2021
Toy santa mug shots

The War on Christmas

A brief history of the Yuletide in America.
by Charles Ludington via The American Scholar on December 28, 2020
A pen and ink portrait of Alexander Hamilton as Treasury Secretary.

A New Hamilton Book Looks to Reclaim His Vision for the Left

In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.
by Ryan Grim via The Intercept on August 4, 2020
Nurses in masks carry a patient on a stretcher to an ambulance.

Fight the Pandemic, Save the Economy: Lessons from the 1918 Flu

We examine the 1918 flu to understand whether social distancing has economic costs or if slowing the spread of the pandemic reduced economic severity.
by Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner via Liberty Street Economics on March 27, 2020

Human Crap: The Idea of ‘Disposability’ Is a New and Noxious Fiction

We are demigods of discards – but our copious garbage became a toxic burden only with the modern cult of ‘disposability.’
by Gabrielle Hecht via Aeon on March 25, 2020
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President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from Covid-19

Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.
by Peter A. Shulman via Made By History on March 22, 2020
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