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This photo, taken on the Minnesota frontier, depicts Regina Sorenson and three others "dressed in men's suits." MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Forgotten Trans History of the Wild West

Despite a seeming absence from the historical record, people who did not conform to traditional gender norms were a part of daily life in the Old West.

by Sabrina Imbler via Atlas Obscura on June 21, 2019

Original Catfluencer: How a Victorian Artist’s Feline Fixation Gave Us the Internet Cat

A story of how Louis Wain single handedly made cats adored by Victorian society through to modern day.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on May 7, 2019

Collage of old political cartoons related to the question of women's suffrage.

Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

via Massachusetts Historical Society on April 26, 2019

Street sign for Flatville, surrounded by flat agricultural fields.

The View from the Middle of Everything

Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois.

by Kristin L. Hoganson via Literary Hub on April 25, 2019

The Prophet Is Human

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

by Mary F. Corey via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 11, 2019

A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019

Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.

by Sam Bock via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 27, 2019

Illlustration: Mrs. Auld teaches fredrick Douglass to read

A Frederick Douglass Reading List

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

by Jaime Fuller via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 21, 2019

The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives

On a presidential paper trail.

by Robert A. Caro via The New Yorker on January 22, 2019

Map of lynchings in Texas.

Lynching In Texas

A website with documents, maps, and essays about the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945.

by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn via Sam Houston State University on January 1, 2019

The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.

by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

The First Midterm ‘Wave’ Election That Ended Total Republican Control of Government

In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.

by Robert B. Mitchell via Retropolis on November 4, 2018

Anti-Catholic riot in Philadelphia in 1844

Lewis Levin Wasn't Cool

The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum.

by Zachary M. Schrag via Tablet on October 22, 2018

Photographs of Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.

When Wilde Met Whitman

As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."

by Michèle Mendelssohn via Literary Hub on July 16, 2018

Convulsions Within: When Printing the Declaration of Independence Turns Partisan

Even America's founding document isn't immune to the powers of polarization.

by Emily Sneff via Age of Revolutions on July 4, 2018

Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon's Battle Against 'The Man'

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

by Judith Shulevitz via New York Review of Books on June 26, 2018

The Great Unsolved Mystery of Missing Marjorie West

Even before mass media coverage of child abductions, American parents had reason to fear the worst if their child went missing.

by Caren Lissner via Narratively on May 5, 2018

How Congress Used the Post Office to Unite the Nation

Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.

by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on April 4, 2018

Printed letter to Dear Abby with answer.

The Power of the Advice Columnist

From Benjamin Franklin to Quora, how advice has shaped Americans’ behavior and expectations of the world.

by Alexandra Molotkow via The New Republic on March 26, 2018

KKK parade

How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie

A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.

by Jennifer Mendelsohn, Peter A. Shulman via Made By History on March 15, 2018

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.

by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017

The Battle Between Baseball and Cricket for American Sporting Supremacy

We could have had a very different World Series.

by Daniel Crown via Atlas Obscura on October 19, 2017

From Liberty Tree to Taking a Knee

How America's founding era sheds light on the NFL controversy.

by Stephen Solomon via First Amendment Watch on October 12, 2017

The Fake-News Fallacy

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

by Adrian Chen via The New Yorker on September 4, 2017

White Supremacists and the Rhetoric of "Tyranny"

White supremacists have long used fear of losing essential rights in their arguments.

by Livia Gershon, Marek D. Steedman via JSTOR Daily on August 31, 2017

The Story Behind the First-Ever Fact-Checkers

Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.

by Merrill Fabry via TIME on August 24, 2017

Abraham Lincoln and John C. Calhoun

The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Portraits

One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.

by Michael Waters via Atlas Obscura on July 12, 2017

Howard Coffin hosts President Calvin Coolidge on Sapelo Island, Georgia.

Black Gullah Culture Fascinated Americans Just As President Coolidge Visited

The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.

by Melissa L. Cooper via Timeline on July 7, 2017

In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left

Despite its persistence in popular culture, extraterrestrial life owes more to the imagination than reality.

by Donovan Webster via Smithsonian on July 5, 2017

Sojourner Truth

Compare the Two Versions of Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech

Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?

by Leslie Podell via The Sojourner Truth Project on June 6, 2017

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