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How Superheroes Made Movie Stars Expendable

The Hollywood overhauls that got us from Bogart to Batman.

by Stephen Metcalf via The New Yorker on May 28, 2018

Farmers haying.

Remembering the ‘Spooky Wisdom’ of Our Agrarian Past

For millennia, humans have followed specific patterns passed down by their forbears without always knowing why.

by Gracy Olmstead via The American Conservative on April 23, 2018

Reading the Soil

On the job with a pair of men who dig up bodies for a living.

by Christopher Cox via Oxford American on March 13, 2018

Roads to Nowhere: How Infrastructure Built on American Inequality

From highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating areas by race, city development has a divisive history.

by Johnny Miller via The Guardian on February 21, 2018

When Government Drew the Color Line

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."

by Jason DeParle via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2018

How to Build a Segregated City

How can adjacent neighborhoods in the same city be so drastically unequal?

by Colette Shade via Splinter on January 19, 2018

The Strange Story of the Forever 1980s

Why the makers of today's popular culture are still so obsessed with the Reagan era.

by Jarrett Ruminski via That Devil History on October 29, 2017

Drawing of someone holding a photo of a Black family in front of a suburban home, and lighting the photo on fire.

America’s Shameful History of Housing Discrimination

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.

by Jamie Hibdon via The Nib on September 25, 2017

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.

by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017

The History of American Fear

An interview with horror historian David J. Skal.

by Cori Brosnahan, David J. Skal via PBS on October 28, 2016

Grill with a chicken cooking on it.

The Story of the Weber Grill Begins With a Buoy

When metalworker George Stephen, Sr. put two halves of a buoy together, he didn't know he was making a charcoal grill that would stand the test of time.

by Maya Wei-Haas via Smithsonian on September 2, 2016

Southdale mall

How the Cold War Shaped the Design of American Malls

America's first mall was designed as an insular utopia, providing shelter and a controlled environment during uncertain times.

by Marni Epstein-Mervis via Curbed on June 11, 2014

Quartzite, Nevada

Tales of Desert Nomads

Tracing the long strange trip of the American Southwest, from military camels to retirees in RVs.

by Robert Sumrell, Kazys Varnelis via Cabinet on March 20, 2006

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