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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

Thomas Paine.

Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship

“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

by Matthew Redmond via Literary Hub on August 13, 2025

James Baldwin and Lucien Happersberger in bed.

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

Once dismissed as passé, since recast as a secular saint, Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than readers in either camp recognize.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 11, 2025

A Caduceus with one snake ready to attack the other.

The Rapid Rise — and Precarious Future — of the Medical University

For decades, health care subsidized research and reputation. Now that model is cracking.

by John R. Thelin, Neal H. Hutchens via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 6, 2025

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy’s War on Voice of America

A largely forgotten campaign of harassment and persecution from the 1950s that still echoes today.

by Daniel Golden via Columbia Journalism Review on August 4, 2025

Deportees walk in a line while coordinators stand nearby in reflective yellow vests.

The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants

Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.

by David Scott FitzGerald via Foreign Affairs on July 10, 2025

National Archives building.

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

Vera Rubin and looking through a telescope.

Who Was Vera Rubin?

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope was renamed The Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This telescope is breaking new ground, just as Vera Rubin did in her lifetime.

by Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton via Harvard University Press Blog on June 28, 2025

Protestors confronting Army military police.

When the Military Comes to American Soil

Domestic deployments have generally been quite restrained. Can they still be?

by Joshua Braver via The Atlantic on June 17, 2025

Strings descend from the talons of an eagle's foot and hold up a shipping container.

Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with William McKinley

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on June 16, 2025

Bound volumes detailing the history of the United States' foreign relations.

These Historians Oversee Unbiased Accounts of U.S. Foreign Policy. Trump Fired Them All.

The volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States have been written since Abraham Lincoln’s time.

by Petula Dvorak via Washington Post on May 28, 2025

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Coldest Cold Warrior

How a sharp-elbowed Polish academic with an unpronounceable name helped defeat the Soviet Union.

by Eric Edelman via The Bulwark on May 23, 2025

Photos of William F. Buckley and James Baldwin.

When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on May 20, 2025

A cartoon depicts two bandaged men suspended on the scales of justice raising their fists at each other.

Jack London’s Fantastic Revenge

In his short story “The Benefit of the Doubt,” Jack London turned truth into fiction, and then some.

by Andrew Rihn via The Saturday Evening Post on May 19, 2025

Aimee Semple McPherson addresses a crowd.

An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax

Aimee Semple McPherson created a wildly popular personal brand as a preacher—then suddenly disappeared.

by Dorothy Fortenberry via The Atlantic on May 12, 2025

Drawing of cowboys riding in the desert, guns drawn, while a herd grazes.

The Hell We Raised: How Texas Shaped the Gunfighter Era

Texans left an enduring mark on the gunfighter era. The frontier was a darker place because of it.

by Bryan Burrough via Texas Monthly on May 5, 2025

Magazine ad of raccoons playing computer games.

The Raccoons Who Made Computer Magazine Ads Great

In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.

by Harry McCracken via Technologizer on April 22, 2025

A worker removes bottles of American-made Jack Daniel's whiskey from a shelf at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) Queen's Quay store in Toronto, Canada.

The History Behind Canadian Boycotts of American Whiskey

A global marketplace has shaped the U.S. whiskey industry for a century, even as it brands itself distinctly American.

by E. Kyle Romero via Made By History on April 8, 2025

Bertrand Russell.

‘Vietdamned’

Can a new book rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?

by Yuan Yi Zhu via History Today on April 4, 2025

Joseph McCarthy with a map.

Joseph McCarthy in Wheeling, West Virginia: Annotated

Senator Joseph McCarthy built his reputation on fear-mongering, smear campaigns, and falsehoods about government employees and their associates.

by Joseph McCarthy, Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on March 24, 2025

Actor Maurice Chevalier signing his MGM contract

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

by Noah Isenberg via The American Scholar on February 13, 2025

Martin Van Buren

The Prudence and Principles of Martin Van Buren

The eighth president defined the future of politics.

by Daniel N. Gullotta via Law & Liberty on February 12, 2025

1860 political cartoon depicting Lincoln as a "Wide-Awake"

A Posthumous Romance of White Male Reunion

The history of deriving political meaning from Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality.

by Andrew Donnelly via HNN on February 11, 2025

Elaine May and Walter Matthau sitting on a bench in May’s film A New Leaf.

May Days

A new biography of an elusive comic talent.

by Lizzy Harding via Bookforum on February 11, 2025

New Yorker magazine from November 17, 1962, open to Baldwin's essay.

On James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

by Kevin Young via The New Yorker on February 10, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

History Warns Us About Cabinet Members Like RFK Jr.

If RFK is confirmed, he is likely to fail for reasons similar to those for past political choices for the cabinet.

by Dan McLaughlin via The New Republic on February 8, 2025

Airplane flying over a muddy, congested road near the Hoover-Washington Airfield in the 1930s.

The Humble Beginnings of the National Airport

A swamp with a busy road going right through the middle, Washington’s airport was called “a disgrace.”

by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on February 1, 2025

Farmer George

The connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.

by Daniel J. Kevles via New York Review of Books on January 23, 2025

Perle Mesta laughing at a dinner party.

Washington’s Hostess with the Mostes’

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on January 20, 2025

Kendrick Lamar in the spotlight performing a concert.

Bad Beef

Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.

by Austin McCoy via Public Books on January 9, 2025

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