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Cover of pamphlet entitled "Defense is First at Firestone"

Patriotism and Production in World War II Corporate Publications

A Lippincott Library collection shows how, during World War II, companies highlighted their war contributions via annual reports.
by Rayna Andrews via Special Collections Cataloging at Penn on July 5, 2017

Modern Wars Are a Nightmare for the Army's Official Historians

The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an unprecedented volume of material to sort.
by Adin Dobkin via The Atlantic on June 14, 2017

Hawks vs. Doves — Which Side Would the Founding Fathers Have Taken?

Expansionism, and sending the military into others' lands, is a critical component of American republicanism, and a factor in independence itself.
by William Hogeland via Los Angeles Times on June 4, 2017

Why Teddy Roosevelt Tried to Bully His Way Onto the WWI Battlefield

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on April 10, 2017

Recoil Operation

The U.S. has long supplied the world with AR-15 rifles. But only when we see its grim effects at home do politicians call for restricting its sale.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Inquiry on July 11, 2016

The Epic Bar Fight That Sums Up the Problem with Memorial Day

A Depression-era story of mourning, motherhood, and grandiosity.
by Lisa M. Budreau via What It Means to Be American on May 26, 2016

Bombing Nagasaki: The Scrapbook

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
by Clark Parker via The Tokyo Files Archives on May 2, 2016
Leonard Matlovich’s grave at Congressional Cemetery

The Only LGBT Cemetery Section in the World Was Inspired by J. Edgar Hoover

A section of D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery has become a gathering place for honoring LGBT activists.
by Ella Morton via Atlas Obscura on March 30, 2016

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015

How the US Military Helped Invent Cheetos

How the US military figured out how to make self-stable cheese ... and helped invent Cheetos to boot.
by Anastacia Marx De Salcedo via Wired on August 7, 2015

How the Military Waged a Graphic-Design War on Venereal Disease

"Fool the Axis—use Prophylaxis!"In many ways, such a coordinated public effort to alter sexual behavior was unprecedented.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on February 11, 2015
A depiction of the female reproduction system in an early sex ed film.

Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck

The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 12, 2014

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.
by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014
A picture of a “water detail,” reportedly taken in May, 1901, in Sual, the Philippines. A man is holding another down while a third holds the captive's mouth open with a stick and pours water into it.

The Water Cure

Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.
by Paul A. Kramer via The New Yorker on February 18, 2008
A soldier on a tank, aiming an M-16 rifle.

M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story

Why the rifles jammed.
by James Fallows via The Atlantic on June 1, 1981

The Carter Doctrine

Carter’s speech heralded a dramatic shift in foreign policy toward a policy of containment of Soviet influence.
via Voices & Visions on January 23, 1980
Johnson delivers the State of the Union address in 1965.

Lyndon B. Johnson's 1968 State of the Union Address

An unpopular Lyndon B. Johnson sought unity amid turmoil in his 1968 address to Congress.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via The American Presidency Project on January 17, 1968
During its first year of service, Freedom House Amublance Service transported more than 4,600 patients across 5,800 calls, saving 200 lives. Heinz History Center

These Black Paramedics Are the Reason You Don’t Have to Ride a Hearse or Police Van to the Hospital

In the 1960s and 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the groundwork for the services available today.
by Lillian Ali via Smithsonian on May 21, 2025
Cover of "Sedition" featuring smoke engulfing the Capitol dome.
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An Attempt to Defeat Constitutional Order

After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state constitution in South Carolina.
by Marcus Alexander Gadson via HNN on May 13, 2025
John Trumbull painting of the death of American General Richard Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec.

How the Thirteen Colonies Tried—and Failed—to Convince Canada to Side With Them In the Revolution

After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775.
by Eli Wizevich via Smithsonian on May 12, 2025
Picture of Yalta revealed behind torn paper

The Post-World War II System Was Always Fragile

Franklin Roosevelt warned that even in peacetime, America’s obligations to the world would continue.
by Julian E. Zelizer via Foreign Policy on May 12, 2025
Women pilots in front of a plane.

How a Group of Fearless American Women Defied Convention to Defeat the Nazis

On the “Atta-Girls,” the pilots who chased adventure during the Second World War.
by Becky Aikman via Literary Hub on May 8, 2025
A monument of the Minutemen line in Concord, Massachusetts.
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The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.
by Eran A. Zelnik via HNN on April 15, 2025
Declassified and redacted White House top secret documents.

JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command

Special Group and PFIAB meeting minutes provide dramatic view of CIA operations.
by Peter Kornbluh, Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi via National Security Archive on April 7, 2025
Bertrand Russell.

‘Vietdamned’

Can a new book rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?
by Yuan Yi Zhu via History Today on April 4, 2025
Map of Boston in 1776.

Terrains of Independence

Why was Boston and Massachusetts the site of so much early Revolutionary activity?
by Garrett Dash Nelson, Katy Lasdow via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on April 2, 2025
Military patients in an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.

How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 1900s Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza

The public and private battles waged across Europe and the United States during the 1918 flu pandemic.
by Edna Bonhomme via Literary Hub on March 24, 2025
Front entrance of the abandoned Florida Solite plant.

The Machine in the Garden

After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.
by Jordan Blumetti via Oxford American on March 18, 2025
Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.
by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 2025
A woman with a rifle, superimposed on an American flag.

From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

Vincent Conlon’s secret life in the United States as an operative and gun-running Irish rebel.
by Ali Watkins via Literary Hub on March 11, 2025
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