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Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days in Palo Alto

Mark Zuckerberg and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.

Working, Out

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.

'What Soldiers Are for': Jersey Boys Wait for War

Essays published in a high school paper reflect the boys' efforts to prepare themselves for fighting in the Civil War.

How America’s Hunting Culture Shaped Masculinity, Environmentalism, and the NRA

From Davy Crockett to Teddy Roosevelt, this is the legacy of hunting in American culture.

Defining Privacy—and Then Getting Rid of It

The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century.

What Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Can Teach the Modern Worker

Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.

This Is Helen Keller’s 1932 'Modern Woman'

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”

Selling American Vigor

The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.

Where the Newly Unveiled Obama Portraits Fit in the History of (Black) Portraiture

An art historian explains how portraits can convey so much more than mere likeness.

‘Eight Loving Arms and All Those Suckers.’

How Angels in America put Roy Cohn into the definitive story of AIDS.

A Brief History of Women’s Figure Skating

You might be surprised to learn that this sport where women now shine was initially seen as solely the purview of male athletes
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.

The Amplified Age

Jenny Hendrix on the 'Naughty Nineties,' the decade in which America rediscovered sex.

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?

The Long History of Black Women's Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

Despite their large role in civil rights activism, black women have frequently been excluded from prominent positions in protests.

William Bradford Huie’s “The Klansman” @50

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.
Katharine Hepburn, an iconic tomboy, cocking a gun in 1935.

Tomboys Were a Trend 100 Years Ago, but Mostly to Bring Up the Birth Rate for White Babies

Fear of diminishing broodstock got the gals going outdoors.

The Artifacts of White Supremacy

Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.

A Short History of the Tomboy

With roots in race and gender discord, has the “tomboy” label worn out its welcome?
The inmates during a negotiating session on September 10, 1971. An uprising born of panic and confusion triggered a cascade of paranoia that extended to the Nixon White House.

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.
Soldiers in Continental Army
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Rumming with the Devil

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.

John L. Sullivan Fights America

In 1883, heavy-weight boxing champion John L. Sullivan embarked on a tour of the country that would make him a sports superstar.
A collage of a still from "All in the Family" on a stylized television with another television in the background.

Fandom's Great Divide

The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.

Who Would Win in a Presidential Knife Fight to the Death?

Do successful presidents make sound knife-wielders?
The large Wide Awake parade in lower Manhattan.

“Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Campaign

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.

Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever

Down and dirty in eighteenth-century London and Boston.
Theodore Roosevelt in three energetic poses.

The Performer

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.

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