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Jim LaBelle, 76, an Indian boarding school survivor.

‘12 Years of Hell’: Indian Boarding School Survivors Share Their Stories

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused.
by Dana Hedgpeth via Retropolis on August 7, 2023
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For 150 Years, We’ve Sought a Scientific Solution To Cure Addiction

A miracle cure for addiction may not be around the corner.
by Simon Torracinta via Made By History on July 11, 2023
Convalescing Civil War soldiers with crutches

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
Henry David Thoreau with a propeller cap.

Henry David Thoreau Was Funnier Than You Think, Particularly on the Subject of Work

On the necessary “deep sincerity” of dark humor.
by John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle via Literary Hub on June 26, 2023
Cormac McCarthy.

Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on June 21, 2023
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during a signing ceremony to ban conversion therapy.
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Conversion Therapy Is Harmful and Ineffective. So Why Is It Still Here?

Conversion therapies have never been about providing medical or mental care. Instead, they have been a tool to eradicate LGBTQ activism, culture and people.
by Andrea Ens via Made By History on May 15, 2023
Collage of Holmesburg Prison aerial view with a gloved hand picking up a medical vial in the foreground.

Holmesburg Prison's Medical Experiments Are Philadelphia's 'Lasting Shame'

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.
by Tamar Sarai via Prism on May 15, 2023
Botanical drawing of a flowering pennyroyal plant.

Pennyroyal, Mifepristone, and the Long History of Medication Abortions

Pennyroyal is a species of mint with purple flowers. It smells like spearmint. And it has been used as an abortifacient for over two thousand years.
by Kathleen Crowther via Nursing Clio on April 26, 2023
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Grappling With the Overthrow of Reconstruction

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on March 23, 2023
U.S. soldier in Iraq

Iraq Veterans, 20 Years Later: ‘I Don’t Know How to Explain the War to Myself’

Nearly 20 years after their deployment to Iraq, veterans grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war.
by Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker via New York Times Op-Docs on March 15, 2023
African American prisoners in Alabama post-Reconstruction.

How the Slavery-Like Conditions of Convict Leasing Flourished After the Collapse of Reconstruction

On the terror that filled the void left by the retreat of federal authority in the South.
by Jefferson Cowie via Literary Hub on November 23, 2022
Members of Jayland Walker's family stand beside a sign in tribute to him.
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Jayland Walker’s Killing Didn’t Spur Expected Protests. Here’s Why.

An effective media strategy has often been crucial to rallying the public behind Black victims of fatal violence.
by Kate L. Flach via Made By History on July 13, 2022

Why Roller Coaster Loops Aren’t Circular Anymore

Just over 100 years ago, loop-the-loops were painful, not sturdy, and much more dangerous than they are today.
by Edward Vega via Vox on June 29, 2022
Memorial to cancer patients of the Radiation Effects Study, 1960-1972

Radiation, Race, and Recognition

Accountability is crucial as we remember the individuals and communities harmed by our institutions and call for retroactive justice.
by Divya Kumar via Nursing Clio on May 26, 2022
Picture of a worried young mother holding a sleeping newborn baby.
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Whose Breast is Best?: "Mom-shaming" in the British Atlantic World

Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.
by Laura Earls via Made By History on May 18, 2022
Black and white photo of a beach with a wooden row boat beached on the shore.

The Pandemic Has Given Us a Bad Case of Narrative Vertigo; Literature Can Help

In the work of writers like W.B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, we can find new ways to tell our own stories.
by Elizabeth Outka via Washington Post on January 25, 2022
Frankling and a turkey with lightning in the background.

When Benjamin Franklin Shocked Himself While Attempting to Electrocute a Turkey

The statesman was embarrassed by the mishap—no doubt a murder most fowl.
by Timothy J. Jorgensen via Smithsonian on November 22, 2021
Barn where Emmett Till was killed

His Name Was Emmett Till

In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.
by Wright Thompson via The Atlantic on July 22, 2021
Smithsonian anthropologist Kari Bruwelheide points out details in the sculptures depicting the faces of two enslaved African Americans who labored at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s

Faces of the Dead Emerge From Lost African American Graveyard

The bones of enslaved furnace workers tell the grim story of their lives.
by Michael E. Ruane via Washington Post on July 9, 2021
Grave labeled "Pauline C. Fryer, Union Spy"

'UNION SPY': The Forgotten Tale of the Presidio's Most Intriguing Grave

How a spy came to be buried in San Francisco is a forgotten tale of adventure, intrigue, and tragedy.
by Katie Dowd via SFGATE on May 16, 2021
DR. JOHN J. CRAVEN, MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH AND THE PHYSICIAN WHO LATER ATTENDED JEFFERSON DAVIS, PERFORMS AN OPERATION DURING THE 1863 SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. THE DOCTOR APPEARS TO BE APPLYING A SPLINT TO THE LEG OF A PATIENT WHILE A MAN BEHIND HIM SEEMS TO BE HOLDING A WHITE COTTON CLOTH, LIKELY SOAKED IN CHLOROFORM, OVER THE PATIENT'S MOUTH AND FACE. | LOCATION: MORRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. (PHOTO BY CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES)

America Has Been Through An Opioid Crisis Before

America’s first opioid crisis came after its bloodiest war, but the lessons of the original debacle have been lost in history.
by Jonathan S. Jones via Vice on April 9, 2021
A man hooked up to receive shocks as part of the Milgram experiment

The Hidden Meaning of a Notorious Experiment

In Stanley Milgram's studies of obedience, people believed they were giving shocks to others. But did their compliance say much about the Nazis?
by Allison Miller via JSTOR Daily on January 7, 2021
Doctor helping a patient

Trump’s Doctor Comes From a Uniquely American Brand of Medicine

Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine.
by Eleanor Cummins via The Atlantic on October 6, 2020

Songs in the Key of Life

A new book presents an expansive vision of soul music.
by Danielle Amir Jackson via Bookforum on September 3, 2020
The burning bush from Exodus, against a background of Egypt and the American South.

The Roots of the Black Prophetic Voice

Why the Exodus must remain central to the African American church.
by Jerry Taylor via Christianity Today on September 2, 2020
Three African American protest leaders address a crowd.

True Stories About the Great Fire

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.
by Dan Adler, Anthony Breznican, Kenzie Bryant, Michael Calderone, Arimeta Diop, Caleb Ecarma, Joe Hagan, Chris Smith, Claire Landsbaum, Abigail Tracy, Erin Vanderhoof via The Hive on August 24, 2020

The Argument of “Afropessimism”

Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.
by Vinson Cunningham via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020

The True Story of the Freed Slave Kneeling at Lincoln’s Feet

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a flashpoint in today’s reckoning with racist statues.
by Laurie Maffly-Kipp via The New Republic on July 1, 2020

Farmers’ Almanacs and Folk Remedies

The role of almanacs in nineteenth-century popular medicine.
by Jessica Brabble via Nursing Clio on June 30, 2020
Drawing of a boy and girl holding their hands behind their heads.

The Scars of Being Policed While Black

From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to a device to torment people in custody, racist police brutality runs deep.
by Laurence Ralph via New York Times Op-Docs on June 30, 2020
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