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Pocahontas, Remembered
After 400 years, reality has begun to replace the lies.
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Victoria Sutton
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Unintended Consequences
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December 24, 2023
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Did Meriwether Lewis Die by Suicide? The Answer Still Matters.
Lacking a sufficient support system, Meriwether Lewis did not have anyone close enough to help him.
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Jamie M. Bolker
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Made By History
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December 1, 2023
“H.H.C.”: The Story of a Queer Life—Glimpsed, Lost, and Finally Found
My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.
by
Aaron Lecklider
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Slate
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April 24, 2023
Moses of Cairo (Illinois)
The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.
by
Edward E. Curtis IV
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Belt Magazine
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April 23, 2023
Angela Davis Exposed the Injustice at the Heart of the Criminal Justice System
In 1970, Angela Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial — and her eventual victory — proved to everyone that the justice system was corrupt.
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Joel Whitney
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Jacobin
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April 1, 2023
The Jewish Summer Camp Hookup Scene Is Real. Here’s Why It Was Built.
All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.
by
Sandra Fox
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Slate
on
March 7, 2023
Spanish 'Dracula' Finds New Blood, More Than 90 Years After Its Release
In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula in Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.
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Mandalit del Barco
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NPR
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September 19, 2022
Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future
John Jacob Astor’s "A Journey in Other Worlds" is a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future.
by
Iwan Rhys Morus
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The Public Domain Review
on
September 14, 2022
Josephine Baker Was the Star France Wanted—and the Spy It Needed
When the night-club sensation became a Resistance agent, the Nazis never realized what she was hiding in the spotlight.
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
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August 8, 2022
The Wondrous and Mundane Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Her private writing offers another, more idiosyncratic angle to understand the famed poet.
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Apoorva Tadepalli
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The Nation
on
August 3, 2022
At the Lower East Side Passover Parade, Immigrants Created New American Identities
Some accounts suggest that the Passover Parade was even more glamorous than its famous counterpart, the Easter Parade.
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Yael Buechler
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Forward
on
April 10, 2022
The Melville of American Painting
In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict.
by
Susan Tallman
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The Atlantic
on
April 6, 2022
Hanif Abdurraqib Breaks Down History’s Famous Beefs
On who gets caught in the crosshairs when it comes to “beef."
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
via
Literary Hub
on
March 8, 2022
The Conservative and the Murderer
Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?
by
Sam Adler-Bell
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The New Republic
on
March 7, 2022
The Sects That Rejected 19th-Century Sex
Why three religious groups traded monogamy for celibacy, polygamy, and complex marriage.
by
Stewart Davenport
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Zócalo Public Square
on
February 14, 2022
In 19th-Century New England, This Amateur Geologist Created Her Own Cabinet of Curiosities
A friend of Henry David Thoreau, Ellen Sewall Osgood's pursuit of her scientific passion illuminates the limits and possibilities placed on the era's women.
by
Reed Gochberg
via
Smithsonian
on
November 19, 2021
Television Genres Over Time
Here’s how the distribution of genres has changed since 1945 up to present.
by
Nathan Yau
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FlowingData
on
October 26, 2021
Families of Choice
On the Shakers and Catholics who found love and friendship in early America.
by
Kara M. French
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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June 28, 2021
The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
by
Noah Flora
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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
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The Nation
on
April 5, 2021
The People’s Ambassadress: The Forgotten Diplomacy of Ivy Litvinov
How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy.
by
Brigid O'Keefe
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Aeon
on
March 29, 2021
The Secret Feminist History of the Temperance Movement
The radical women behind the original “dump him” discourse.
by
Nina Renata Aron
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Medium
on
March 5, 2021
Fanne Foxe, ‘Argentine Firecracker’ at Center of D.C. Sex Scandal, Dies at 84
She ran from the car of a powerful congressman and dove into the Tidal Basin in 1974, generating a splash that would ripple into a political cause celebre.
by
Adam Bernstein
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Washington Post
on
February 24, 2021
How Elkton Became the Marriage Capital of the East Coast
The story of one small Maryland town that became the Marriage Capital of the East Coast in the 20th century.
by
Melissa August
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TIME
on
February 11, 2021
Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?
Ninety-six years after the book's publication, the characters of "The Great Gatsby" continue to mesmerize readers.
by
Wesley Morris
via
The Paris Review
on
January 11, 2021
The Glorious RBG
I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.
by
Irin Carmon
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Intelligencer
on
September 18, 2020
It’s Time to Make Postal Workers Heroes Again
Delivering the mail used to be sexy and thrilling. It can be once more.
by
Jennifer Wilson
via
Slate
on
September 17, 2020
A Lover’s Blues: The Unforgettable Voice of Margie Hendrix
Remembering the woman who outsang Ray Charles.
by
Tarisai Ngangura
via
Longreads
on
September 2, 2020
Dylan, Unencumbered
"How long can it go on?"
by
Katrina Forrester
via
n+1
on
August 3, 2020
Greil Marcus Takes a Deep Dive Into "the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby"
An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’
by
Allen Barra
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The National Book Review
on
July 17, 2020
Reunion, Juneteenth and the Meaning of the Civil War
What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?
by
Ben Railton
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
June 16, 2020
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