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Whitman, Melville, & Julia Ward Howe: A Tale of Three Bicentennials

The difference between the careers and reputations of the three famous authors is about gender as well as genius.
by Elaine Showalter via New York Review of Books on May 27, 2019
Lincoln portrait superimposed on rainbow flag

So What if Lincoln Was Gay?

Reflections from the author of a novel that does not shy away from the question of Lincoln's sexuality.
by Louis Bayard via The Paris Review on April 16, 2019
Cover of John Krakauer's book "Under the Banner of Heaven," featuring the Utah landscape.

Abusing Religion: Polygyny, Mormonisms, and Under the Banner of Heaven

How stories of abuse in minority religious communities have influenced American culture.
by Megan Goodwin via The Revealer on February 20, 2019
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Guilty of Miscegenation

A look at anti-miscegenation laws across the United States.
via BackStory on February 15, 2019

How Jackie Robinson’s Wife, Rachel, Helped Him Break Baseball’s Color Line

At some point, Jackie began to refer to himself not as “I” but as “we.”
by Chris Lamb via The Conversation on January 30, 2019
Sylvia Plath smiling outdoors.

What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.
by Emily Van Duyne via Literary Hub on January 22, 2019
Black and white image of Alice Paul, broadcasting from her desk at the Capitol, 1923.

Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on November 26, 2018
Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan

How New York’s Postwar Female Painters Battled for Recognition

The women of the historic Ninth Street Show had a will of iron and an intense need for their talent to be expressed, no matter the cost.
by Claudia Roth Pierpont via The New Yorker on October 1, 2018

Did George Washington ‘Have a Couple of Things in His Past’?

A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.
by Cassandra A. Good via The Atlantic on September 28, 2018
Edna Lewis in the kitchen.

The People of Freetown

Can renowned Southern chef and writer Edna Lewis' radical communist politics be parsed out by analyzing her cookbooks?
by Mayukh Sen via Popula on September 26, 2018

An Inquiry Into Abuse

Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.
by Elon Green via Longreads on August 23, 2018

Rediscovering a Founding Mother

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, Julia Rush.
by Stephen Fried via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

The Haunting of a Heights House

Although its owner died in 1865, many visitors to the Morris-Jumel Mansion still come just to see her.
by Sarah Laskow via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 30, 2018

The Partners of Greenwich Village

Did the census recognize gay couples in 1940?
by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on July 3, 2018

Part of the Long History of Child Trafficking: 18th-Century French Louisiana

In the 1720s, French colonial authorities seized children off the streets of Paris and forced them to settle the New World.
by Julia M. Gossard via The Junto on June 27, 2018

The Unromantic, Untold Story of the Great US Divorce Spree of 1946

The war brought many couples together. It also drove many apart.
by Corinne Purtill via Quartz on June 26, 2018

How Our Grandmothers Disappeared Into History

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.
by Katy Simpson Smith via Zócalo Public Square on June 8, 2018
Man wearing a red Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses rides a big yellow motorcycle.

How Feminists Invented the Male Midlife Crisis

Because most tales and treatises about this near-cliché of midlife crisis center on men, you might be misled to think they have nothing to do with women’s lives.
by Susanne Schmidt via Zócalo Public Square on June 1, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.
by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018
Anna Williams

A Slave Who Sued for Her Freedom

An enslaved woman who jumped from a building in 1815 is later revealed to be the plaintiff in a successful lawsuit for her freedom.
by Michael Burton, Kwakiutl Dreher, William G. Thomas III via The Atlantic on May 1, 2018

Virginia Is for Lovers

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.
by Gretchen Livingston, Peter Wallenstein, Angela Gonzales, Christopher Bonastia via Contexts Magazine on January 22, 2018

Civil War Soldiers’ Wet Dreams

Looking for traces of sexual fantasy in soldiers' letters home.
by Dillon Carroll via Nursing Clio on November 1, 2017

The Invention of Monogamy

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.
by Sarah Mirk, Isabella Rotman via The Nib on October 20, 2017
Women with a sign supporting passage of the ERA.

Who Killed the ERA?

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."
by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2017

First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

A new study suggests that online dating is influencing levels of interracial marriage, and even the stability of marriage itself.
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv via MIT Technology Review on October 10, 2017

What Planned Parenthood Looked Like in The 1940s

Following WWII, the birth control organization published illustrated pamphlets with authoritative guidance on family planning.
by Claire Voon via Hyperallergic on October 5, 2017

The Complex Marriage Complex

A descendant of the Oneida Community reflects on the famous 19th century experiment in managing sexual freedom.
by Rita Koganzon via The Hedgehog Review on September 1, 2017

The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet

The marriage of twentieth-century avant-gardists Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy was blissfully happy—until his mysterious disappearance.
by Emma Garman via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 30, 2017
Men in drag, 1915.

Transgender Men Who Lived a Century Ago Prove Gender Has Always Been Fluid

In her new book, ‘True Sex,’ historian Emily Skidmore looks at their lives and how society has treated them.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on July 31, 2017
Mike and Karen Pence.

History Suggests We Should Be Paying More Attention to Karen Pence

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.
by Melissa J. Gismondi via Nursing Clio on July 11, 2017
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