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Silver medalists Karen Chen and Nathan Chen pose for a photo after the team event in the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing.

The ‘Miracle on Ice’ Shaped the Olympics Coverage We’re Seeing Every Night

How rooting for American athletes became part of Olympic TV coverage.

by Bruce Berglund via Made By History on February 9, 2022

Henry Ford on an early tractor.

American Power Pull

The farm tractor wasn’t born overnight. Perfecting it led to a three-way battle between Ford, John Deere and International Harvester.

by Michael Taube via The Wall Street Journal on December 29, 2021

Dancers in West Side Story jumping on stage

Why West Side Story Leaves Out African Americans

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place in Los Angeles.

by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on December 17, 2021

Painting of an airship flying over a rural countryside.

Whatever Happened to Airships?

In moving away from fossil fuels, some in aviation are thinking of bringing back helium-assisted flight.

by Martin L. Levitt, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 16, 2021

Brontosaurs fossil in the Great Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

The Second Skeleton

Museums construct knowledge by constructing objects—literally.

by Mabel Rosenheck via Contingent on December 9, 2021

President Harry Truman at a podium, giving a speech at NATO's inception in 1949.

Containment Can Work Against China, Too

There are important differences between Xi Jinping’s China and the Soviet Union, but the Cold War still offers clear strategic guidance for the U.S.

by Hal Brands via The Wall Street Journal on December 3, 2021

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping walking down a red carpet past a row of Chinese military guards.

Can Cold War History Prevent U.S.-Chinese Calamity?

Learning the right lessons of the past.

by Odd Arne Westad, Li Chen via Foreign Affairs on November 29, 2021

Illustration of circus entertainer in a cage with lions and tigers

Joe Exotic Channels the Spirit of America's 19th-Century Tiger Kings

The flamboyant big-cat aficionados of the Gilded Age weren’t strangers to fierce competition, threats and bizarre drama.

by Madeline Steiner via The Conversation on November 18, 2021

Sketch of Maxie Shackelford looking tough.

Confessions of a Loan Shark

One of the last survivors of Boston’s Gangland War of the 1960s opens up about his notorious past.

by Springs Toledo via City Journal on October 7, 2021

Book Cover for Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier

A New Biography of 'Smokin' Joe' Frazier, a Champ with the Common Touch

Allen Barra reviews Mark Kram Jr.’s Smokin’ Joe, a biography of Joe Frazier.

by Allen Barra via The National Book Review on October 23, 2020

Teenagers from PAL take part in “Commissioner for A Day” on February 18, 1969

Rivalry in the Trenches

Philadelphia’s PAL and the Black Panther Party’s efforts to mold black youth into their own image.

by Menika Dirkson via The Metropole on September 23, 2020

When California Went to War Over Eggs

As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony.

by Jessica Gingrich via Smithsonian on April 15, 2019

Almost Undefeated: The Forgotten Football Upset of 1976

How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.

by Britni de la Cretaz via Longreads on February 1, 2019

Trump's Nixon-Style Enemies List

The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?

by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on August 19, 2018

Why We Need Government to Safeguard Against the New Robber Barons

Competition among media companies is crucial to democracy.

by Gregory Church via Made By History on July 31, 2018

Movie poster for "American Gigolo," showing a man in a suit looking to the right, with his shadow on the wall behind him

Armani in America

Looking back on "American Gigolo," a love story about a wardrobe.

by Haley Mlotek via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 3, 2018

Hamilton and Burr shooting, Burr at Hamilton and Hamilton to the sky.

Hamilton Vs. Burr: What Really Happened?

Beyond “Hamilton”: How the friends turned into political rivals, and finally into mortal enemies.

by Amelia Onorato via The Nib on April 27, 2018

When Bobby Decided to Run

This weekend is the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s fateful decision to enter the 1968 presidential race. What if he hadn’t?

by Jeff Greenfield via Politico Magazine on March 17, 2018

Alexander Hamilton

The Many Alexander Hamiltons

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Humanities on January 1, 2018

Edgar Alan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs

The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review.

by Mark Athitakis via Humanities on October 20, 2017

The Battle Between Baseball and Cricket for American Sporting Supremacy

We could have had a very different World Series.

by Daniel Crown via Atlas Obscura on October 19, 2017

When a New York Baron Became President

In the case of Chester Arthur, the story is one of surprising redemption.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 11, 2017

The Notorious Night Biggie Was Murdered in Los Angeles

Shaq, Baron Davis, and Nick Van Exel reflect on The Notorious B.I.G., his murder, and the city they called home.

by Justin Tinsley via Andscape on March 8, 2017

A New Orleans parade, with confetti falling on the heads of men dancing in suits.

Sundays in the Streets

The long history of benevolence, self-help, and parades in New Orleans.

by Leslie Parr via Southern Cultures on December 16, 2016

Albert Bierstadt painting of American Indians in a forest.

Thomas Jefferson's Quest to Prove America's Natural Superiority

French theorists said that American native species were inferior to European ones—the former President went to great lengths to show that they were wrong.

by Andrea Wulf via The Atlantic on March 7, 2016

How the Rivalry Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Changed History

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.

by John Ferling via TIME on February 15, 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

A drawing of a hippopotamus with its mouth open wide.

American Hippopotamus

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

by Jon Mooallem via The Atavist on November 28, 2013

Who Would Win in a Presidential Knife Fight to the Death?

Do successful presidents make sound knife-wielders?

by Geoff Micks via The Writings of Geoff Micks on August 22, 2012

Lithograph of the 1871 massacre of Chinese workers in California.

How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

The greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history, bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel, occurred on a night in 1871.

by John Johnson Jr. via LA Weekly on March 10, 2011

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