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How Advertisers Have Used Maps to Try to Sell You Stuff

A huge collection of “persuasive maps” — newly available online — reveals how our trust in cartography can be used to sway us.
by Betsy Mason via National Geographic on May 5, 2017
Hindenburg exploding

America’s Love Affair With the Hindenburg

Before the German zeppelin met its fiery demise, it was an object of fascination for U.S. radio listeners.
by Michael J. Socolow via Slate on May 5, 2017

Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.
via Library of Congress on April 4, 2017

Nativism, Violence, and the Origins of the Paranoid Style

How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.
by Mike Mariani via Slate on March 22, 2017

From Boston's Resistance to an American Revolution

How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.
by Mark Boonshoft via New York Public Library on February 28, 2017
Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Hustle

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.
by Matt Stoller via The Baffler on January 1, 2017

The Original Attack Dog

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.
by John Dickerson via Slate on August 9, 2016
Poster depicting Belgium and the U.S. as women greeting each other in friendship.

World War I: America Heads to War

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by James Walsh via Digital Public Library of America on April 7, 2016

How Women Mapped the Upheaval of 19th Century America

The second part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.
by Laura Bliss via CityLab on March 23, 2016
Graphic illustration of people standing in a line with text boxes over their heads

Internet Privacy, Funded By Spies

Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA.
by Yasha Levine via Surveillance Valley on March 3, 2016
CIA Director George Bush and President Gerald R. Ford during a Meeting in the Cabinet Room

The Art of Administration: On Greg Barnhisel’s “Cold War Modernists”

Cold War modernists of the title do not seem to be the painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists who produced the original works.
by Donal Harris via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 2, 2016
Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth the First's spymaster.

Open to Inspection

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.
by Lewis H. Lapham via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 1, 2016
Antiwar protest against the Vietnam War outside the White House.

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.
by Jon Wiener via The Nation on April 15, 2015
Scene from Birth of a Nation.

“A Public Menace”

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.
by Dorian Lynskey via Slate on March 31, 2015
Crowd with hands up at World Youth Festival

When the C.I.A. Duped College Students

Inside a famous Cold War deception.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on March 16, 2015

Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness

We have always questioned the spiritual and physical effects of alcohol.
by Kristen D. Burton via The Appendix on December 3, 2014

Into the Trenches in Red and Blue

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2014

Winsor McCay Animates the Sinking of the Lusitania in a Beautiful Propaganda Film

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.
by Jonathan Crow via Open Culture on May 6, 2014

When the Wild Imagination of Dr. Seuss Fueled Big Oil

Geisel did not begin his career writing children stories, but selling products.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on August 17, 2012
An American flag with the stars replaced by Chiquita logos and the stripes containing the words "The United Fruit Co. in Guatemala"

Watch Out For the Top Banana

Edward Bernays and the colonial adventures of the United Fruit Company.
by Larry Tye via Cabinet on September 4, 2006
"Sunrise at Northport Harbor" painting by Arthur Dove.

Unpopular Front

American art and the Cold War.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on October 9, 2005
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The Late Unpleasantness in Idaho: Southern Slavery and the Culture Wars

Culture warriors envision a future in which the educational power of universities will be harnessed to the propagation of a “biblical worldview” nationwide.
by William L. Ramsey via HNN on December 19, 2004
Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson’s Religious Empire Expanding in the Northwest

While hosting a conference featuring his defense of "Southern Slavery," Douglas Wilson exposes the radicalism of his growing "Christian" empire.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on April 20, 2004
Black-and-white portrait of Fidel Castro looking down with his hand near his ear.

I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.
by Jean Daniel via The New Republic on December 7, 1963
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

Fifty Years After History’s Most Brutal Boxing Match

The Thrilla in Manila nearly killed Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on September 16, 2025
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The 40-Year-Old Book That Predicted Our Dystopian Politics

Neil Postman's classic "Amusing Ourselves to Death" predicted a dystopian American future.
by Sam Collings-Wells via Made By History on September 10, 2025
Louis Ludlow.

War Powers to the People

Louis Ludlow’s war referendum amendment was the high-water mark of American antiwar populism.
by Hunter DeRensis via The American Conservative on September 1, 2025
Aftermath of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

An oral history of the coverage: what the United States attempted to cover up.
by Garrett M. Graff via Literary Hub on August 20, 2025
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Scratching the Record

On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings.
by Asheesh Kapur Siddique via HNN on July 8, 2025
Walter Lippmann.

Walter Lippmann, Beyond Stereotypes

On the political theorist and the new media landscape.
by Geoff Shullenberger via Compact on June 4, 2025
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