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A portrait of Edgar Allen Poe.

The Most Overrated Writer in America

Do people really like Edgar Allen Poe?

by Naomi Kanakia via Woman of Letters on March 18, 2025

Shield with the words "For European Recovery Supplied by the United States of America."

Soft Power

What it means, why it matters, and where it started.

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Imperfect Union on March 15, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer.

by Tiana Reid via The Yale Review on March 11, 2025

Malcolm X on the newspaper with Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes in the background.

How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

What Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes failed to imagine.

by Ted Hamm via Literary Hub on February 21, 2025

NAACP Legal Defense Fund button against lynching.

“Lynch Law in America”: Annotated

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose January 1900 essay exposed the racist reasons given by mobs for their crimes, argued that lynch law was an American shame.

by Ida B. Wells, Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on February 21, 2025

Sam Peckinpah looks into a film camera.

The Noble Savagery of Sam Peckinpah

“Bloody Sam” was born one hundred years ago this month.

by Christopher Sandford via Modern Age on February 19, 2025

President John F. Kennedy writing at desk in the Oval Office.

Kennedy Family Values

Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?

by Alan Pell Crawford via The American Conservative on January 25, 2025

John Tower; Pete Hegseth.

In 1989, Senators Faced a Pete Hegseth Situation Very Differently

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

by Fred Kaplan via Slate on January 23, 2025

Ronald Reagan

Revisiting the Panama Canal Debate of 1978

The uproar over Trump’s remarks about the Canal recalls a lively debate from the late 1970s.

by James W. Carden via The American Conservative on January 23, 2025

Drawings of Sadie James and Charles Page over a map of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood.

by Russell Cobb via The Pickup on January 23, 2025

Lerone A. Martin

Christian Nationalists Don’t Want Us To Remember the Real MLK

The same Christian ideology that inspired J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to surveil MLK is alive and well in the Trump administration.

by Lerone A. Martin, Josiah R. Daniels via Sojourners on January 21, 2025

Grover Cleveland.

The President Trump Is Pushing Aside

Grover Cleveland enthusiasts aren’t thrilled that Donald Trump won a nonconsecutive presidential term.

by Russell Berman via The Atlantic on January 1, 2025

Jimmy Carter in the 1970s visiting a town in Brazil that commemorates Confederate expats.

Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.

by Tim Barker via Origins of Our Time on January 1, 2025

President Jimmy Carter seated at desk in Oval Office, hands steepled.

Jimmy Carter Held the Door Open for Neoliberalism

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.

by Sean T. Byrnes via Jacobin on December 29, 2024

George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon at the Reagan Library opening.

Jimmy Carter Was a Successful (Conservative) President

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

by Paul Matzko via Made By History on December 29, 2024

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter Was the True Change Agent of the Cold War

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

by Michael Hirsh via Foreign Policy on December 29, 2024

A bird perched on top of a broken tree trunk, surrounded by snow covered bushes and trees.

For the Birds

In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.

by Santiago Flórez via HNN on December 24, 2024

David Rubenstein

King David

Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein has cultivated a reputation as a well-meaning advocate of history education. What does that image mask?

by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on December 24, 2024

A portrait of Ignatius Donnelly.

The Peculiar Case of Ignatius Donnelly

The politician presents a riddle for historians. He was a beloved populist but also a crackpot conspiracist. Were his politics tainted by his strange beliefs?

by Andrew Katzenstein via The Nation on December 12, 2024

The former Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, a 5-story stone building looms above the street.

Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals

The psychiatric hospitals promoted by Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix were quickly overcrowded and underfunded — a failure that haunts us today.

by Robert Kirkbride via Places Journal on December 10, 2024

John Locke

Review of "America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life"

We see what we want to see from philosophers such as Locke not because he wrote for our time (or “all time”) but because we imagine he did.

by Raymond Haberski Jr. via American Literary History on November 15, 2024

Today’s Echoes of the First ‘America First’

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

by Casey Michel via The Bulwark on November 13, 2024

Ronald Reagan preparing for a broadcast on Voice of America.

Whose Ronald Reagan?

Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.

by Susan B. Glasser via Foreign Affairs on October 22, 2024

Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins, Modern Politics, and Historical Memory

The current political moment is reshaping the narrative about the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Made By History on October 21, 2024

A computer, business documents, envelope, and a broadcast tower.

How Tech Giants Make History

AT&T’s early leaders used PR to sway public opinion, casting their monopoly as a public service and obscuring its political roots.

by Richard R. John via Pro-Market on October 10, 2024

John Mack speaking on the Oprah Winfrey Show, with a tagline that reads "John Mack, M.D., Harvard Psychiatrist Who Believes Patients Were Abducted By Aliens."

John E. Mack and the Unbelievable UFO Truth

The controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.

by Michael J. Socolow via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 21, 2024

Political cartoon of a politician with his clothes removed, revealing tattoos showing corruption.

Campaign Missteps: Gaffes on the Trail

How a single phrase or blunder can end up dominating our political discourse.

via Retro Report on September 20, 2024

The Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village.

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the transformative creation of the Village Vanguard.

by David Browne via Literary Hub on September 18, 2024

Read Another Book

The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.

by Henry Grabar via Slate on September 16, 2024

Pamela Harriman posing in an expensively decorated bedroom beside a four poster bed.

How a Mid-Century Paramour Became a Democratic Power Broker

Churchill weaponized her powers of seduction—but Pamela Harriman came into her own when she brought her glamour to Washington.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on September 16, 2024

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