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“Victory Gardens” Are Back in Vogue. But What Are We Fighting This Time?

“Growing your own vegetables is great; beating Nazis is great. I think we’re all nostalgic for a time when anything was that simple.”
by Anastasia Day, Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 11, 2020
Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher.
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Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. That Trope Has a Troubling History.

Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.
by Mia Brett via Made By History on March 28, 2020

Pioneers of American Publicity

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020
An young African American man speaking at a podium with a sign "SDS: Black Power and Change"

Friends of SNCC and The Birth of The Movement

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.
by Ethan Scott Barnett via The Metropole on December 10, 2019
A portrait of Marlon Brando (1948).

On the Activism of Marlon Brando, Before the Fame

Agitprop, Israel, and the shape of the world after WWII.
by William J. Mann via Literary Hub on October 11, 2019

The Difference Between Nixon and Trump is Fox News

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.
by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on October 7, 2019
Cotton field.

How The 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.
by Phillip W. Magness via National Review on August 26, 2019
Sidney Hook speaking at the opening session of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Berlin on June 26, 1950.

Is Science Political?

Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political origins.
by Michael D. Gordin via Boston Review on August 20, 2019

Escaped Nuns

Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."
by Pete Cajka, Cassandra L. Yacovazzi via Religion in American History on June 17, 2019
Senators Joseph McCarthy and Kenneth Wherry.

Democracy and Misinformation

The Cold War and today.
by Jennifer M. Miller via Perspectives on History on June 10, 2019
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a speech celebrating ADL’s centennial in 2013.

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.
by Emmaia Gelman via Boston Review on May 23, 2019
Banner of George Washington on a stage with nazi symbols and the American flag

Nazis Rallied at Madison Square Garden

A chilling raw feed of an infamous event. 
by Andy Lanset via WNYC on May 1, 2019
1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 2018

What War of the Worlds Did

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.
by Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey via Aeon on November 26, 2018

Operation Ajax

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.
by Bridey Heing via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 26, 2018
Valentina Tereshkova in space, painted
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Valentina Tereshkova and the American Imagination

Remembering the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and how she challenged American stereotypes.
by Robert L. Griswold, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 13, 2018
Thomas Paine

Capitol Hill Needs Thomas Paine Memorial

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?
by Jeff Biggers via The Hill on October 21, 2018
Soldiers burning books.

How We Roasted Donald Duck, Disney's Agent of Imperialism

Why a 47-year old anti-colonialist critique by Chilean dissidents may be newly relevant in the Trump era.
by Ariel Dorfman via The Guardian on October 5, 2018
An open book.
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Periodicals Are Reassessing Their Pasts. It’s Time for Publishers to Do the Same

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.
by Yuliya Komska via Made By History on March 22, 2018
Political cartoon of American victory locking German war in jail with a League of Nations lock.

Treaty of Versailles and the End of World War I

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Albert Robertson via Digital Public Library of America on February 22, 2018

William Randolph Hearst for President

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 22, 2018
KKK march in Washington in 1925.

The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on December 13, 2017
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Before Net Neutrality, There Was Radio Regulation

How today's media landscape was shaped by a 1920s decision to privilege corporate broadcasters over noncommercial ones.
by Livia Gershon, Robert W. McChesney via JSTOR Daily on December 11, 2017

How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States.
by John M. Barry via Smithsonian on October 25, 2017

Patriotism, Partisanship, and “The Star-Spangled Banner”: A View from the Early Republic

Music continues to hold an allure for elites seeking to politicize patriotism in support of their privilege.
by Michael D. Hattem, Billy Coleman via The Junto on September 28, 2017

Commercial Surveillance State

Blame the marketers.
by Matthew Crain, Anthony Nadler via n+1 on September 27, 2017
White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug 12, 2017.

The ACLU's Free Speech Stance Should Be About Social Justice, Not 'Timeless' Principles

When the organization first defended Nazis, it did so for practical reasons.
by Laura Weinrib via Los Angeles Times on August 30, 2017

Where Donald Trump Learned His Tough Love for History

He professes admiration for "statues and monuments" but his family has a record of tearing down rather than preserving.
by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on August 24, 2017

A New View of Grenada’s Revolution

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via New York Review of Books on July 26, 2017
Elderly Jewish woman at temple with a lit candle.

America’s Dangerously Shallow Understanding of the Holocaust

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.
by Andrea Pitzer via Vox on May 4, 2017
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