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The TV That Created Donald Trump

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017

Brian Tochterman on the 'Summer of Hell'

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

by Brian Tochterman, Sarah Cleary via UNC Press Blog on July 21, 2017

Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.

by Daegan Miller via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 16, 2017

The Revival of John Quincy Adams

The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.

by David Waldstreicher via The Atlantic on July 11, 2017

Someone writes at a desk next to a gavel, with the scales of justice in the background.

The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians

How local prosecutors' offices have become stepping stones to higher office.

by Jed Handelsman Shugerman via SHUGERBLOG on July 7, 2017

The Making of an Antislavery President

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on June 23, 2017

Portrait of justice Samuel Sewall

Affable, He Convicted Salem Innocents

In a novelized biography of Samuel Sewell, a greater mystery than what bedeviled the girls is what motivated a righteous man to condemn them for witchcraft.

by Stacy Schiff via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2017

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe and the Power of a Portrait

Edgar Allan Poe knew that readers would add their visual image of the author to his work to create a personality that informed their reading.

by Erin Blakemore, Kevin J. Hayes via JSTOR Daily on February 13, 2017

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016

Photo of three of the Cherry sisters: one playing a bass drum, standing between two in awkward dance poses.

The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters

How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.

by Jack El-Hai via Longreads on October 1, 2016

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

Illustrated children reaching for books by statue of Anne Carroll Moore

The Librarian Who Changed Children’s Literature Forever

They called her ACM, but never, ever, to her face.

by Laura J. Miller via Slate on August 5, 2016

A pile of trash on the street in New York, 1911.

The Pig Apple

The story of the thousands of free-range pigs who managed New York’s waste in the 1800s.

via BackStory on August 4, 2016

Delegates at a political convention.

Please (Don’t) Be Seated

The story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and was denied.

via BackStory on July 22, 2016

Andrew Jackson was A Slaver, Ethnic Cleanser, and Tyrant

Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.

by Dylan Matthews via Vox on April 20, 2016

Forget Hamilton, Burr Is the Real Hero

We can learn more from him in today's political world.

by Carey Wallace via TIME on April 14, 2016

Aaron Burr: Most Hated Man in American History

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

by Gordon S. Wood, Matthew Wills, Herbert Sloan via JSTOR Daily on January 14, 2016

Collage of newspaper clippings about Jacqueline Smith's death.

A Christmas Abortion

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.

by Gillian Frank via NOTCHES on December 15, 2015

Part of a portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Scandalous Legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Collector of Art and Men

Long before the gallery she built was famously robbed, Isabella Stewart Gardner was shocking 19th-century society with her disregard for convention.

by Lyz Lenz via Vice on December 3, 2015

Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015

Hillary Clinton in Haiti

The King and Queen of Haiti

There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Politico Magazine on May 2, 2015

The Unlikely Paths of Grant and Lee

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 9, 2015

Edgar Allan Poe

On Edgar Allan Poe

Crypts, entombments, physical morbidity: these nightmares are prominent in Poe’s tales, a fictional world in which the word that recurs most crucially is horror.

by Marilynne Robinson via New York Review of Books on January 5, 2015

The Dark Legacy of Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism

The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper Ford owned, regularly supported and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

by A. James Rudin via Washington Post on October 10, 2014

Painting of Hannah.

Hannah, Andrew Jackson’s Slave

A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why?

by Mark R. Cheathem via Humanities on March 10, 2014

Gerry Studds faces reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on July 20, 1983.

Gerry Studds: The Pioneer Gay Congressman Almost Nobody Remembers

His story of coming out was so shrouded in scandal, so drenched in professional embarrassment, that its broader significance may forever be overshadowed.

by Jennifer Bendery, Sam Stein via HuffPost on February 20, 2014

A mother holding her infant child in her lap.

Before the Ward

On the movement away from midwifery towards hospital births.

via BackStory on May 10, 2013

Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013

Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.

by Alison de Lima Greene via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2012

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

by H. W. Brands via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 1, 2012

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