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Pete Seeger.

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on May 1, 2008
A man making fists, ready to box.

Storm of Blows

In the 1890s, boxing went from lower class brawling to upper class show of masculinity.
by Melissa Haley via Commonplace on January 1, 2003
Caricature of Christopher Columbus

The Lost Mariner

The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on October 6, 2002
Caricature of Martin Luther King's head

The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on April 11, 2002
Handwritten page and photo in Anne Frank's diary.

Who Owns Anne Frank?

The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?
by Cynthia Ozick via The New Yorker on September 28, 1997
Harrison Gray Otis in superimposed over newspapers and palm trees.

Letter from Los Angeles

The history of the L.A. Times.
by Joan Didion via The New Yorker on February 18, 1990
Elvis Presley dancing.

How Long Will We Care?

A music critic assesses Elvis Presley's influence on popular culture.
by Lester Bangs via Village Voice on August 29, 1977

Henry Ford, the Wayside Inn, and the Problem of 'History Is Bunk'

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.
by Roger Butterfield via Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society on June 1, 1965
Painting imagining John Brown (bearded man embracing Black child), being escorted by authorities.

Eugene Debs’s Stirring, Never-Before-Published Eulogy to John Brown at Harpers Ferry

In 1908, Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown as America's "greatest liberator," vowing the Socialist Party would continue Brown's work. We publish it here in full.
by Eugene V. Debs via Jacobin on October 1, 1908
Portrait of George Washington

Conotocarious

When Native Americans met George Washington in 1753, they called him by the Algonquian name "Conotocarious," meaning "town taker" or "devourer of villages."
via The Digital Encyclopedia Of George Washington
Ford Model T's lining a street in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

From Aid to Trade

What U.S. policymakers should know about U.S.-Africa relations.
by Leigh Gardner via Perspectives on History on December 2, 2025
A room in Monticello.

Jefferson Divided

Though his writings grappled with the contradiction between bondage and liberty, Thomas Jefferson’s life was indebted to those he enslaved.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on December 1, 2025
Thomas Paine alongside the front cover of "Common Sense"

Thomas Paine, Common Sense and a Plan for America

The constitutional ideas in Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet.
by Jett Conner via Journal of the American Revolution on November 20, 2025

The Man Incapable of Writing a Bad Sentence

Friends, enemies and lovers animate more than 60 years of the John Updike’s remarkable correspondence.
by John Banville via The Guardian on November 17, 2025

Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act

Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
by Carl Rollyson via The Hedgehog Review on November 6, 2025
The Jefferson Memorial, with storm clouds outside, and light from within.

How Jefferson’s Words Were Doctored in his Memorial

A great-great-grandson pushed to portray Jefferson as an abolitionist, leaving a misleading impression about his actions on equality and slavery.
by Michael Kranish via Washington Post on November 2, 2025
Charles Oldrieve's photo and newspaper articles about his journey.

In 1907, This Daring Performer Walked on Water From Cincinnati to New Orleans

Charles Oldrieve used custom-made wooden shoes to float on the water’s surface and propel himself forward.
by Erica Westly via Smithsonian Magazine on October 30, 2025
Anthony Kennedy and the Citizens United ruling.

This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.

The story of how corruption became legal in America isn't just about memos, movements, and legal strategies.
by David Sirota, Jared Jacang Maher via Slate on October 21, 2025
A teletype portrait of Curtis LeMay.

"I Have Sought to Slaughter as Few Civilians as Possible."

The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay."
by Alex Wellerstein via Doomsday Machines on October 16, 2025
Diagram of a cotton gin

How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True

The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.
by Ariel Ron via Commonplace on October 14, 2025
Woods along the path of the British retreat from Concord to Boston.

Why Concord?

The geological origins of the American Revolution.
by Robert A. Gross, Robert Thorson via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
Photograph of Edgar Allen Poe cut into the shape of a coffin.

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe

On the terror of being buried alive and Americanism in Poe’s work.
by Ed Simon via Literary Hub on October 8, 2025
Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara McKee.

Me and Bobbie McKee

The story of the woman who inspired Janis Joplin’s signature song, then slipped away.
by Elon Green via Slate on September 20, 2025
Cinderella Tries on the Slipper, by Millikin and Lawley, c. 1890.
partner

If the Slipper Doesn’t Fit

A scorched shoe is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed.
by Gabby Kiser via HNN on September 9, 2025
Henry Kissinger poses for a portrait in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing at the White House, Washington, DC, 1969. Photo © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Getty Images.

The Parallel Lives of Cold War Frenemies

On new biographies of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger.
by Hazem Kandil via History Today on September 9, 2025

America’s Coal Age

Black gold powered the United States’ transition from backwater to global hegemon.
by Emmet Penney via The American Conservative on September 5, 2025
Pancho Villa

Where is the Skull of Pancho Villa?

Pancho Villa’s death reveals how the border blurs the relationship between Mexico and the United States.
by Amy Frykholm via The Christian Century on September 5, 2025
Illustration of Jack Kerouac and his editor Malcolm Crowley with the manuscript "On the Road."

Scrolling Through

Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of "On the Road."
by Gerald Howard via The American Scholar on September 2, 2025
Gouverneur Morris.

The One-Legged Founding Father Who Escaped the French Revolution

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure.
by Zachary Clary via Smithsonian Magazine on September 2, 2025
Illustration of John Dickinson with flowers in the barrel of his musket.

The Prudent Patriot

There’s a lot more to Founding Father John Dickinson than not signing the Declaration of Independence.
by Dennis Drabelle via The Pennsylvania Gazette on August 22, 2025
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