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Black and white photo of Fatty Arbuckle

Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?
by Michael Schulman via The New Yorker on September 30, 2021
MLK in a police station

Martin Luther King Knew That Fighting Racism Meant Fighting Police Brutality

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Atlantic on September 15, 2021
Twin Towers at sunset

How To Remember Minoru Yamasaki’s Twin Towers

Remembered as symbols of strength after 9/11, the Twin Towers and their Japanese American architect were once criticized in racist and sexist terms.
by Alexandra Lange via CityLab on September 8, 2021
Jacqueline Jones

Biography’s Occupational Hazards: Confronting Your Subject as Both Person and Persona

As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject’s life that left her baffled, even mystified.
by Jacqueline Jones via Perspectives on History on September 8, 2021
Illustration of Edgar Allen Poe looking out window at raven, painted by Eduard Manet

Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend

Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”
by Matthew Redmond via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 7, 2021
Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation Spent the Last Decade of Her Life Violently Destroying Bars. She Had Her Reasons. 

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Slate on September 7, 2021
Victorian women waving from ship

The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

The daring women whose transatlantic journeys challenged gender roles.
by Siân Evans via Literary Hub on August 12, 2021

Remembered for the Wrong Reason?

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?
by Jason Yonce, J. L. Bell, David Price, Matthew M. Montelione, Don Glickstein, Will Monk, David Head, Don N. Hagist, Derrick E. Lapp, Eric Sterner, William H. Manthorpe Jr., Conner Runyan, Gene Procknow, Greg Aaron, John DeLee, Robert S. Davis, Jane Hampton Cook, Gregory Safko, James Kirby Martin, Alex Colvin, William M. Welsch, Jim Piecuch, Stuart Hatfield via Journal of the American Revolution on August 11, 2021
President Obama in the Oval Office.

Pictures at a Restoration

On Pete Souza’s Obama.
by Blair McClendon via n+1 on August 10, 2021
Painting of attack on Fort Washington

Morale Manipulation As the Central Strategic Imperative in the American Revolutionary War

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.
by Woody Holton via Journal of the American Revolution on August 3, 2021
A church building situated amongst mountains.

Thoreau In Good Faith

A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.
by Caleb Smith via Public Books on July 19, 2021
Jim Jones and family

In the Image of Jonestown

In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.
by Jay Caspian Kang via The Nation on July 10, 2021
Bass Reeves

The Resurrection of Bass Reeves

Today, the legendary deputy U.S. marshal is widely believed to be the real Lone Ranger. But his true legacy is even greater.
by Christian Wallace via Texas Monthly on June 22, 2021
Collage-style design of Milton Friedman and his work

The End of Friedmanomics

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.
by Zachary D. Carter via The New Republic on June 17, 2021
Artistic photo of John Marshall

America’s ‘Great Chief Justice’ Was an Unrepentant Slaveholder

John Marshall not only owned people; he owned many of them, and aggressively bought them when he could.
by Paul Finkelman via The Atlantic on June 15, 2021
Photograph of Mabel Loomis Todd with a child

Bitchy Little Spinster

Emily Dickinson and the woman in her orbit.
by Joanne O'Leary via London Review of Books on June 3, 2021

The Unreconstructed Radical

Thaddeus Stevens was a fierce opponent of the “odious” compromises in the Constitution, and of the North’s compromises after the Civil War.
by Richard Kreitner via The Baffler on May 13, 2021
George Washington riding into town while a crowd cheers.

Mary Ball Washington, George’s Single Mother, Often Gets Overlooked – but she's Well Worth Saluting

Martha Saxton dives into the life of the mother of George Washington and how historians have misrepresented her in the past.
by Martha Saxon via The Conversation on May 7, 2021
Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Rowdy America

A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on April 29, 2021
Handcuffs with chain of $

The Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business

The domestic slave trade was no sideshow in our history, and slave traders were not bit players on the stage.
by Joshua D. Rothman via The Atlantic on April 20, 2021
Original bars on a window are seen in the basement of the Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, Va.
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The Deep Cruelty of U.S. Traders of Enslaved People Didn’t Bother Most Americans

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.
by Joshua D. Rothman via Made By History on April 14, 2021
A 1951 meeting between ADL leadership and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.

The Anti-Democratic Origins of the Jewish Establishment

The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.
by Emmaia Gelman via Jewish Currents on March 12, 2021
Photo of former African American woman, Bernette Johnson, wearing judicial robes

The Dissenter

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.
by Elon Green via The Appeal on March 2, 2021
Helen Keller, circa 1954.

Did Helen Keller Really “Do All That”?

A troubling TikTok conspiracy theory questions whether Keller was “real.”
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 26, 2021
A collage with photos of Barack Obama.

The Limits of Barack Obama’s Idealism

“A Promised Land” tells of a country that needed a savior.
by Thomas Meaney via The New Republic on February 15, 2021
Drawing ofGeorge Washington addressing the Continental Congress.

‘George Washington’ Review: Our Founding Politician

Washington was a savvy packager of his own personal virtues. He knew that if you don’t engage in a bit of self-aggrandizement, you lose.
by Barton Swaim via The Wall Street Journal on February 15, 2021
Cartoon of Philip Roth at a typewriter, with the typescript turning into himself looking back at him

The Possessed

Joshua Cohen imagines how Philip Roth would review his own biographer.
by Joshua Cohen via Harper’s on February 9, 2021
A graphic featuring illustrations of Stan Lee.

The Unheroic Life of Stan Lee

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.
by Jillian Steinhauer via The New Republic on February 9, 2021
Presidents Obama, Trump, Bush, and Clinton
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Who Is The Worst American President of All Time?

The answer can change over time.
by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on January 25, 2021
Rebecca, living the life at the 1927 White House Easter Egg Roll, with first lady Grace Coolidge.

When Rebecca the Raccoon Ruled the White House

Since we have new presidential pets, Champ and Major, we take a quick look back at one of the nation’s most famous four-legged White House inhabitants.
by Neely Tucker via Library of Congress Blog on January 25, 2021
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