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Americans Are Tired of Choice
How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?
by
Gal Beckerman
via
The Atlantic
on
June 23, 2025
Neither Marine nor Maggot
"Full Metal Jacket" and the crisis of masculinity.
by
Chris Deutsch
via
Nursing Clio
on
June 4, 2025
The Rebellions of Murray Kempton
One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
The Nation
on
April 8, 2025
America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong
Her ghostwritten autobiography diminishes her, and I found out why.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
via
The Atlantic
on
April 7, 2025
America the Beautiful
One hundred years ago, "The Great Gatsby" was first published. It remains one of the books that almost every literate American has read.
by
John Pistelli
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The Metropolitan Review
on
April 7, 2025
partner
The Black Panther Party's Under-Appreciated Legacy of Love
The Black Panther Party illustrated how communal love can be a powerful agent for change and empowerment.
by
Mickell Carter
via
Made By History
on
February 19, 2025
How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars
In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Gould.
by
Myrna Perez
via
Jacobin
on
January 12, 2025
How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America
On John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the complex history of an oft-misunderstood political movement.
by
Mary Frances Phillips
via
Literary Hub
on
January 10, 2025
Which Celebrities Popularized (or Tarnished) Baby Names? A Statistical Analysis
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
by
Daniel Parris
via
Stat Significant
on
January 8, 2025
Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.
by
Chad Pearson
via
Jacobin
on
December 22, 2024
Taylor Swift and the History of the Celebrity Endorsement
Do pop culture interventions in presidential elections make a difference?
by
Addie Mahmassani
via
New Lines
on
October 23, 2024
partner
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
The Woman Who Would Be Steinbeck
John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?
by
Mark Athitakis
via
The Atlantic
on
October 10, 2024
A Purrrrfect Political Storm
Crazy cat ladies have come to dominate this election season. It’s hardly the first time.
by
Natalie Kinkade
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JSTOR Daily
on
September 25, 2024
partner
The Comstock Act's Threat to Abortion Rights If Harris Loses
Anthony Comstock, Victoria Woodhull, and what a battle from the 1870s means for 2024 and reproductive rights.
by
Rebecca DeWolf
via
Made By History
on
September 12, 2024
Discrimination Against Trans Olympians Has Roots in Nazi Germany
1934 world champion runner Zdenek Koubek, boxer Imane Khelif, and how far we haven’t come on gender in sports.
by
Michael Waters
,
Alex Abad-Santos
via
Vox
on
August 1, 2024
Driving While Female
Is the car our most gendered technology?
by
Leann Davis Alspaugh
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
July 31, 2024
A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution”
Why should taxpayers fund schools that violate their own values, the Moms for Liberty wonder? A new book traces how this kind of thinking about public spending came to be.
by
Sarah Brouillette
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
April 15, 2024
When NYC Invented Modern Policing: On WWII–Era Surveillance and Discrimination
From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.
by
Matthew Guariglia
,
Emily M. Brooks
via
Public Books
on
April 2, 2024
How Black Leaders Formed the Reproductive Justice Movement
Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.
by
Felicia Kornbluh
via
Ms. Magazine
on
February 6, 2024
Thicker Than Water: A Brief History of Family Violence in Appalachian Kentucky
Knowing I come from people who lived hard lives and endured terrible things is difficult. Knowing that I come from someone who ruined lives haunts me.
by
Angie Romines
via
New England Review
on
January 10, 2024
It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop
We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history—certainly not the first thing about Black history—without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.
by
Austin McCoy
via
The Baffler
on
January 9, 2024
The Mischievous Morris Sisters
Two gifted sisters in Philadelphia helped to transform early American science.
by
Catherine McNeur
via
American Heritage
on
December 17, 2023
What Makes a Prison?
Wherever we find the state engaged in potentially lethal repression, we find prison.
by
Dan Berger
via
Public Books
on
November 1, 2023
Fighting for Rights: An Overview of Urban Disability
This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights.
by
Ryan Reft
via
The Metropole
on
October 3, 2023
How Work Has Shaped the LGBTQ Community
And the ways capital took advantage of the state's policing of sexuality.
by
Ryan Reft
via
The Metropole
on
September 26, 2023
We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine
Gloria Steinem on the making of America's first feminist publication.
by
Gloria Steinem
via
Literary Hub
on
September 20, 2023
Reopened Museum Honors Women's Fight for Fairness
Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.
by
Ann Morrow
via
American Heritage
on
September 13, 2023
Where Are the Women? Past Choices That Shaped the Historical Record
When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.
by
Amanda Bowie Moniz
via
Perspectives on History
on
September 1, 2023
The Welfare Rights Movement Wanted Society to Value the Work of Child-Rearing
The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.
by
Annelise Orleck
,
Sasha Lilley
via
Jacobin
on
August 17, 2023
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