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Thomas Jefferson and Us

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?

by David Sehat via William and Mary Quarterly on October 1, 2017

Stereograph titled 'The Toucans' depicting three toucans and a snake amid plants and rocks

Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality

The shocking power of immersing oneself in another world was all the buzz once before—about 150 years ago.

by Clive Thompson via Smithsonian on September 21, 2017

Excremental Empire

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.

by Benjamin Breen on September 8, 2017

Boston Herald assistant publisher W.G. Gavin at the “Rumor Clinic,” 1942.

During WWII, 'Rumor Clinics' Were Set Up to Dispel Morale-Damaging Gossip

A network of "morale wardens" tracked down the latest scuttlebutt.

by Crystal Ponti via Atlas Obscura on May 17, 2017

The Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.

by Salar Mohandesi via Viewpoint Magazine on March 17, 2017

How Televising Presidential Debates Changed Everything

Ever since Kennedy-Nixon, televised debates have given viewers an insight into candidates' policies—and their personalities, too.

by Livia Gershon, James N. Druckman via JSTOR Daily on September 23, 2016

The inmates during a negotiating session on September 10, 1971. An uprising born of panic and confusion triggered a cascade of paranoia that extended to the Nixon White House.

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 22, 2016

A Century of Highway Zombies

Since the 1920s, “highway hypnosis” has lulled drivers to disaster.

by Carmine Grimaldi via The Atlantic on July 29, 2016

Cannabis sativa plant.

Reefer Madness in Mexico City

Historian Isaac Campos traces the origins of the idea that marijuana causes violent madness…and finds the trail leads south, to Mexico.

via BackStory on May 20, 2016

Portrait of Edward Gibbon

Bonfire of the Humanities

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.

by Samuel Moyn via The Nation on January 21, 2015

The Problem of Slavery

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 23, 2014

Painting from 1857 by Alexander Beydeman depicting the light-filled practise of homeopathy, including a silver-haired Hahnemann, watching disapprovingly on over the horrors wrought by traditional medicine, referred to as Allopathy

Proving It: The American Provers’ Union Documents Certain Ill Effects

The history of "proving", the practice of auto-experimentation that forms the cornerstone of homeopathic medicine.

by Alicia Puglionesi via The Public Domain Review on September 4, 2013

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.

by Richard Hofstadter via Harper’s on November 1, 1964

James Baldwin

‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.

by James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren via Literary Hub on April 27, 1964

Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.

by Blanche M. Baker, KPFA, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Leland Call, Leah Gailey via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 24, 1958

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