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“Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine
A critique of colonialism from Martian science fiction.
by
Jonathan Lethem
via
The Paris Review
on
November 14, 2024
American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
by
Paul Crider
via
Liberal Currents
on
October 2, 2024
Reconsidering Expansion
Historians question "expansion" as the defining process of U.S. growth, proposing alternative terms like "empire" and "settler colonialism."
by
Rachel St. John
via
Teaching American History
on
August 20, 2024
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
A pre-history of the sentence diagrams that were once commonplace in the American classroom.
by
Hunter Dukes
via
The Public Domain Review
on
June 19, 2024
This Cartoonist Wants to Tell the Complicated History of Women’s Voting Rights
A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.
by
Barbara Rodriguez
via
The 19th
on
June 17, 2024
Our Local Monster
Whose knowledge matters in a changing region?
by
Kathryn Carpenter
via
Contingent
on
May 19, 2024
Archival Shouting
Silence and volume in collections and institutions.
by
Karin Wulf
via
Perspectives on History
on
April 10, 2024
The Enduring Power of Purim
Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.
by
Stuart Halpern
via
Tablet
on
March 21, 2024
Space Isn’t the Final Frontier
Mars fantasists still cling to dreams of the Old West.
by
Kelly Weinersmith
,
Zach Weinersmith
via
Foreign Policy
on
January 21, 2024
How Do We Know the Motorman Is Not Insane?
Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.
by
James Robins
via
The Dreadnought
on
December 20, 2023
The Annotated Frederick Douglass
In 1866, the famous abolitionist laid out his vision for radically reshaping America in the pages of "The Atlantic."
by
Frederick Douglass
,
David W. Blight
via
The Atlantic
on
November 13, 2023
Eclipsed in His Era, Bayard Rustin Gets to Shine in Ours
The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
November 6, 2023
How Gremlins Went From Fairy Stories to Warplanes to Hollywood Legend
Meet these slippery, mischievous reflections of our anxieties about technology.
by
Hadley Meares
via
Atlas Obscura
on
October 24, 2023
DeSantis, Trump and The History of Treating D.C. Residents Like They Aren’t Americans
A history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.
by
Gillian Brockell
via
Retropolis
on
August 8, 2023
The Hidden History of the Hollywood Sign
“The sign has become a worldwide symbol of the Hollywood of the imagination, and it allows anyone who sees it to fill it with whatever meaning they want.”
by
Nathan Smith
via
Smithsonian
on
July 13, 2023
The Underground Railroad Was the Ultimate Conspiracy to Southern Enslavers
And justified the most extreme responses.
by
Colin Dickey
via
Atlas Obscura
on
July 11, 2023
The Post-Civil War Opioid Crisis
Many servicemen became addicted to opioids prescribed during the war. Society viewed their dependency as a lack of manliness.
by
Jonathan S. Jones
,
Livia Gershon
via
JSTOR Daily
on
July 9, 2023
The Ironic Radical: On Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative”
The kinds of narratives historians tend to fall back on constrain our ability to imagine alternatives to the way things have been, and to the way things are.
by
Michael S. Roth
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
June 2, 2023
"The Comic Natural History of the Human Race" (1851)
These caricatures of well-known Philadelphians transpose human heads onto animal forms.
by
Hunter Dukes
via
The Public Domain Review
on
June 1, 2023
All Water Has a Perfect Memory
A landscape has come into being through a constellation of resistances to these strategies of control.
by
Jordan Amirkhani
via
The Paris Review
on
January 31, 2023
Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers
It's where legends like Tina Turner and Ray Charles launched their careers.
by
Adrian Miller
via
Atlas Obscura
on
June 28, 2022
‘Wallets and Eyeballs’: How eBay Turned the Internet Into a Marketplace
The story of the modern web is often told through the stories of Google, Facebook, Amazon. But eBay was the first conqueror.
by
Ben Tarnoff
via
The Guardian
on
June 16, 2022
The Stories of the Bronx
"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" is a vibrant cultural history that looks beyond pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect.
by
Emily Raboteau
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 17, 2022
Mark Twain in Buffalo
Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly.
by
Bill Kauffman
via
The Spectator
on
January 3, 2022
A Brief History of Word Games
Crossword puzzles may be a recent invention, but since we've had language we've played games with words.
by
Adrienne Raphel
via
The Paris Review
on
November 30, 2021
As Far From Heaven as Possible
How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.
by
Ed Simon
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 4, 2021
Charlie Brown Tried to Stay Out of Politics
Why did readers search for deeper meaning in the adventures of Snoopy and the gang?
by
Scott Bradfield
via
The New Republic
on
June 2, 2021
Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
May 17, 2021
The Filing Cabinet
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems.
by
Craig Robertson
via
Places Journal
on
May 1, 2021
The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.
by
Audrey Clare Farley
via
The New Republic
on
March 16, 2021
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