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Colonial Boston’s Civil War
Bostonians refused to be forced to house British soldiers. So the army paid rent to willing landlords, and soldiers’ families settled down all over town.
by
Kathleen DuVal
via
The Wall Street Journal
on
February 28, 2020
Emily Dickinson Escapes
A new biography and TV show present Emily Dickinson as a self-aware artist who created a life that defied the limits placed on women.
by
Lynne Feeley
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Boston Review
on
February 20, 2020
Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre
Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.
by
Serena Zabin
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Literary Hub
on
February 20, 2020
The True Story of the Awakening of Norman Rockwell
The artist’s Saturday Evening Post covers championed a retrograde view of America. In the 1960s, he had a change of heart.
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Tom Carson
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Vox
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February 19, 2020
“Female Monthly Pills” and the Coded Language of Abortion Before Roe
Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.
by
Melissa Gira Grant
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The New Republic
on
January 22, 2020
Inventing Freedom
Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.
by
Alejandro de la Fuente
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Ariela Gross
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
January 21, 2020
The Broken Road of Peggy Wallace Kennedy
All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?
by
Frye Gaillard
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The Bitter Southerner
on
January 6, 2020
A Very Lost Cause Love Affair
Is it possible to write a good Civil War romance?
by
Sarah Handley-Cousins
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Nursing Clio
on
December 5, 2019
When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas
Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis.
by
Wes Ferguson
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Texas Monthly
on
October 14, 2019
The Civil Rights Activist So Close to Martin Luther King Jr. She Was Thought of as His ‘Other Wife'
According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.
by
Jason Miller
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The Conversation
on
June 24, 2019
Escaped Nuns
Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."
by
Pete Cajka
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Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
via
Religion in American History
on
June 17, 2019
partner
How Ancestry.com Has Failed African American Customers
The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.
by
Kristen Green
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Made By History
on
May 31, 2019
Pessimism and Primary Sources in the Survey
The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.
by
Jonathan W. Wilson
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Teaching United States History
on
May 20, 2019
White Southerners' Wealth After the Civil War
What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.
by
Andrew Van Dam
via
Washington Post
on
April 4, 2019
The Mistress's Tools
White women and the economy of slavery.
by
Lynne Feeley
via
The Nation
on
February 26, 2019
Equal-Opportunity Evil
A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
February 14, 2019
Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?
The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.
by
Jeffrey Escoffier
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Christopher Mitchell
via
NOTCHES
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October 11, 2018
“Young Appearance”: Assessing Age through Appearance in Early America
In early America, one's looks, rather than date of birth, often determined one's age.
by
Holly N. S. White
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The Junto
on
September 18, 2018
Being a Victorian Librarian Was Oh-So-Dangerous
In the late 19th century, more women were becoming librarians. Experts predicted they would suffer ill health and breakdowns.
by
Livia Gershon
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Rosalee McReynolds
via
JSTOR Daily
on
August 7, 2018
The Endless Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem
What variables make a woman's inclusion in history more likely?
by
Michelle Moravec
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b2o
on
August 1, 2018
They're Not Morbid, They're About Love: The Hair Relics of the Midwest
Leila collects art that’s made of human hair and displays it to the public at a museum bearing her name in Independence, Missouri.
by
Elizabeth Harper
via
The Order Of The Good Death
on
July 11, 2018
How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery
In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.
by
Elizabeth L. Jemison
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Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
June 27, 2018
We See You, Race Women
We must dive deeper into the intellectual artifacts of black women thinkers to support the evolution of black feminist discourse and political action.
by
Nicole A. Spigner
via
Public Books
on
June 5, 2018
Hysterical Cravings
How “pickles and ice cream” became the iconic “crazy” snack for pregnant women.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
April 18, 2018
Lonesome on the Lower East Side
The story of the Bintel Brief, an early twentieth-century advice column for Jewish immigrants.
by
Jessica Weisberg
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
April 4, 2018
Parenting for the “Rough Places” in Antebellum America
Jane Sedgwick’s evolving ideas about her children’s natures and her ability to shape them reflected an emerging American skepticism of the perfectibility.
by
Erin Bartram
via
Commonplace
on
March 1, 2018
How the Civil War Taught Americans the Art of Letter Writing
Soldiers and their families, sometimes barely literate, wrote to assuage fear and convey love.
by
Christopher Hager
via
Smithsonian
on
January 22, 2018
partner
Roy Moore and the Revolution to Come
Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?
by
Kimberly A. Hamlin
via
Made By History
on
November 19, 2017
The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads
Before Tinder, there was “Singles News.”
by
Natasha Frost
via
Atlas Obscura
on
October 27, 2017
Old New York, Seen Through a Cab Driver’s Windshield
The people Joseph Rodriguez saw through the windshield in the 1970s and 80s.
by
Joseph Rodriguez
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Intelligencer
on
October 27, 2017
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