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An Enduring Shame

A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.
by Heather Ann Thompson via New York Review of Books on October 7, 2018

How Midwestern Suffragists Used Anti-Immigrant Fervor to Help Gain the Vote

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.
by Sara Egge via Zócalo Public Square on September 17, 2018
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The Real Reason the Catholic Church Remains Plagued by Abuse Scandals

In the wake of abuse scandals, lay people, not priests, should have more power.
by William S. Cossen via Made By History on August 23, 2018

Socialism and the Liberal Imagination

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
by Mason B. Williams via Dissent on August 8, 2018

Happy, Healthy Economy

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.
by Livia Gershon via Longreads on August 6, 2018
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018

If You Smell Something, Say Something

City dwellers of the 19th century were dogged by a foul terror: miasma.
by Conevery Bolton Valencius via Distillations on July 31, 2018
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. in 1957.

Have We Lost Faith in Public Education?

Economic rationales for schooling are eroding democracy.
by Johann N. Neem via Perspectives on History on July 26, 2018

The Discovery of the Mental Institution

Mental health care has never been adequate in the U.S.
by Sarah Swedberg via Nursing Clio on June 14, 2018

Susan Fenimore Cooper, Forgotten Naturalist

Susan Fenimore Cooper is now being recognized as one of the nation's first environmentalists.
by Rochelle Johnson, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on May 31, 2018
Children working a machine in a textile mill.

The Campaign for Child Labor

Why did David Clark campaign to keep kids working in the early 20th century? For one thing, it benefited his interests.
by Livia Gershon, Bart Dredge via JSTOR Daily on May 28, 2018

How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics

In an effort to open Congress, they institutionalized a confrontational style that permeates contemporary politics today.
by John A. Lawrence via Politico Magazine on May 26, 2018
Vegetable stand at the Mulberry St. bend, photograph by Jacob Riis.

Policing Unpolicable Space: The Mulberry Bend

Sanitation reformers confront a neighborhood seemingly immune to state intervention.
by Matthew Guariglia via The Metropole on May 10, 2018

Prison Cells and Pretty Walls

Gender coding and American schools.
by Jennifer Borgioli Binis via Nursing Clio on May 3, 2018

Why It’s Bad When It’s “Not That Bad”

Considering the history of street harassment in light of #MeToo.
by Molly Brookfield via Nursing Clio on May 1, 2018
Mug shot of 18-year-old Lucille Crouse.

Kansas Locked Up More Than 5,000 Women and Girls for Having STDs

“The law itself was very, very broad.”
by Aaron Barnhart via Timeline on March 1, 2018

Voices in Time: Epistolary Activism

An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.
by Louise W. Knight via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 22, 2018

The Troubled Rise of the Technocrat

The notion that a government’s chief obligation is getting stuff done is a fairly recent arrival on the historical scene.
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on November 20, 2017
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Roy Moore and the Revolution to Come

Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?
by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Made By History on November 19, 2017

The Man the Presidency Changed

What a forgotten commander in chief can teach Donald Trump.
by Scott S. Greenberger via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2017

When a New York Baron Became President

In the case of Chester Arthur, the story is one of surprising redemption.
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 11, 2017
Girls in line to enter a bathhouse.

Public Baths Were Meant to Uplift the Poor

In Progressive-Era New York, a now-forgotten trend of public bathhouses was introduced in order to cleanse the unwashed masses.
by Andrea Renner, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on September 9, 2017
A 1902 football game mid-play, with men from both sides rushing at each other

God and the Gridiron Game

America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.
by Paul Putz, Hunter Hampton via Christianity Today on September 6, 2017

When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers

The ugly roots of the "school choice" movement.
by Leo Casey via Dissent on August 9, 2017
Donald Trump

If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populism Mean?

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?
by Charles Postel via The American Historian on August 1, 2016
Cartoon portraits of women who were mayors in 1922.

In the 1920s, the Now-Forgotten Flood of 'Girl Mayors' Became the Face of Feminism

Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.
by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on July 6, 2016
Entry in Theodore Roosevelt's diary with an "X" from the day his wife died.

Theodore Roosevelt & Valentine’s Day

How Theodore's Roosevelt's personal tragedies inspired him to reform America's cities.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on February 14, 2016
European fur traders trading rum to Native Americans
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Liquid Poison

American Indians and the tumult in their cultures precipitated by the arrival of alcohol.
via BackStory on January 1, 2016

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on December 7, 2015

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.
by Peggy Solic via Origins on July 15, 2015
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