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Clipping of a newspaper article titled "Helen Keller and Socialism"

Problematic Icons

Political activists Greta Thunberg and Helen Keller have been just as misunderstood by their supporters as by their detractors.
by Emmeline Burdett via Public Disability History on March 16, 2021
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A Quest to Discover America’s First Science-Fiction Writer

It’s been two hundred years since America’s first sci-fi novel was published. But who wrote it?
by Paul Collins via The New Yorker on November 28, 2020
Cartoon that shows a man struggling to shake a woman's hand because of her wide skirt.

Lampooning Political Women

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.
by Allison K. Lange via Humanities New York on September 15, 2020

What Ever Happened to Chicken Fat?

Comedy from Mad Magazine to The Simpsons.
by Jackson Arn via 3 Quarks Daily on July 27, 2020

Comic Gold

The Gold Rush introduced a new figure into the American imagination – the effete Eastern urbanite who travels to the Wild West in quest of his fortune.
by Alex Andriesse via The Public Domain Review on March 12, 2020

“The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming”

It’s hardly a secret, but, for a land that bills itself as a land of freedom and opportunity, America can be inhospitable to just about anyone.
by Olivia Rutigliano via Public Books on March 12, 2020
Caricature of Oscar Wilde in between a sunflower in a vase with the U.S. dollar symbol on it, and a lion with sunflower petals for a mane.

The Wilde Woman and the Sunflower Apostle: Oscar Wilde in the United States

Victoria Dailey looks back at Oscar Wilde’s wild ride through the United States in the early 1880s.
by Victoria Dailey via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 8, 2020

Introducing the Brand-New Historic District

A company hopes its construction of a Historic District will satisfy those who are upset with its demolition of historic sites.
by Jeremiah Budin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019
Donald Trump, holding microphones, surrounded by shock jocks

The Trigger Presidency

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
by Ben Schwartz via The New Republic on April 24, 2019

The “Miscegenation” Troll

The term “miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author. It turned out to be an anti-abolition hoax.
by Mark Sussman via JSTOR Daily on February 20, 2019

In "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?
by Hua Hsu via The New Yorker on January 9, 2019

The Gender-Bending Style of Yankee Doodle's Macaroni

The outlandish "macaroni" style of 18th-century England blurred the boundaries of gender, as well as class and nationality.
by Matthew Wills, Amelia Rauser via JSTOR Daily on October 21, 2018
The Writing Master, by Thomas Eakins, 1882. Painting of a man wearing glasses and writing with a pen.

Yawns Innumerable

The story of John Quincy Adams’ forgotten epic poem—and its most critical reader.
by Matthew Sherrill via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 6, 2018

What Makes ‘The Living Dead’ My Film of 1968

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.
by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2018
A man alone among the rubble of a city

TV and the Bomb

During the Cold War, nuclear weapons were a frequent plot point on television shows. Fearful depictions in the 1950's became more darkly comedic in the 1960s.
by Reba A. Wissner via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 13, 2018

Unrevolutionary Bastardy

A review of a "The Low Road," a “mordantly anti-Hamiltonian” play that made its debut at New York's Public Theater this spring.
by Hannah Farber via The Junto on May 16, 2018

Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

A look at the ornate float and costume designs from Carnival’s “Golden Age."
by Allison C. Meier via The Public Domain Review on February 7, 2018

The ‘SNL’ Sketch That Predicted Our Nerd Overlords

In 1986, William Shatner told a roomful of spoof Trekkies to "get a life."
by Alan Siegel via The Ringer on January 31, 2018

In 1968, When Nixon Said "Sock It To Me" on 'Laugh-In,' TV Was Never Quite the Same Again

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.
by Ryan Lintelman via Smithsonian on January 19, 2018

Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy. He’s Killed Our Stupid Idea of Comedy.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.
by Andrew Kahn via Slate on July 19, 2017

The Woman Whose Words Inflamed the American Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on June 20, 2017
A young thomas edison poses next to a phonograph

How 19th Century Techno-Skeptics Ridiculed Thomas Edison

At his peak, newspapers loved to tease the inventor. They also feared him.
by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on February 28, 2017
A white muscular man flexes confidently while sitting on a stool.
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Nose Knows Best

Nasology was a 19th century pseudoscience which claimed to explain personality traits based on the shape of a person’s nose.
via BackStory on July 10, 2015
A collage of a still from "All in the Family" on a stylized television with another television in the background.

Fandom's Great Divide

The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.
by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on March 31, 2014
Black-and-white still image from the film "Dr. Strangelove," in which a man is shouting and waving his hat in the air while riding a missile in flight.

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.
by Eric Schlosser via The New Yorker on January 17, 2014
Advertisement for a "Little Orphan Annie" comic book collection. The protagonist, Annie and her dog are in the foreground of the advertisement.

Little Ideological Annie

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.
by Ben Schwartz via Bookforum on November 30, 2008
The letters Q and A having a conversation.

The History of Advice Columns Is a History of Eavesdropping and Judging

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I the Asshole.
by Merve Emre via The New Yorker on June 16, 2025
Political cartoon comparing office seekers to various animals.

The Spoilsman's Progress

Ambitious office seekers during the nineteenth century experienced wild swings of fortune that depended on the public’s mood and party benevolence.
by Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer via Commonplace on June 3, 2025
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How the Rattlesnake Almost Became an Emblem of a Nascent America

On the centuries-long historical evolution of a serpentine symbol.
by Stephen S. Hall via Literary Hub on April 24, 2025
Man holding The New Yorker magazine like a telescope.

Onward and Upward

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.
by David Remnick via The New Yorker on February 10, 2025
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