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Vietnam Draft Lotteries Were a Scientific Experiment

The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects.

by Tim Johnson, Dalton Conley, Christopher T. Dawes via The Atlantic on December 2, 2019

Illustration of video of Columbine shooters

20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle The Shooters Wanted

Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”

by Andy Warner via The Nib on April 17, 2019

#MeToo, Networks of Complicity, and the 1920s Klan

How the Klan’s extensive networks of patriarchal power enabled abusive men to prey on women.

by Mara Keire via Process: A Blog for American History on January 24, 2019

Sylvia Plath smiling outdoors.

What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.

by Emily Van Duyne via Literary Hub on January 22, 2019

The Old Man and His Muse: Hemingway’s Toe-Curling Infatuation with Adriana Ivancich

For the last decade of his life, the sozzled Hemingway was in thrall to an Italian 30 years his junior.

by Nicholas Shakespeare via The Spectator on September 1, 2018

Happy, Healthy Economy

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.

by Livia Gershon via Longreads on August 6, 2018

The Nuclear Fail

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.

by Emily Harnett via Hazlitt on July 30, 2018

How African-Americans Disappeared from the Kentucky Derby

In the 19th century – when horse racing was America’s most popular sport – former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers.

by Katherine Mooney via The Conversation on May 4, 2017

Did Abraham Lincoln’s Bromance Alter the Course of American History?

Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln.

by Charles B. Strozier via The Conversation on February 15, 2017

Jim Jones in 1977

Drinking the Kool-Aid at Jonestown

Did you drink the Kool-Aid? The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.

by Rebecca Moore, Peter Feuerherd, David Chidester, James T. Richardson via JSTOR Daily on November 11, 2016

Cover of "Ghostland: An American History," made to look like a cemetery headstone.

The Family That Would Not Live

Writer Colin Dickey sets out across America to investigate America's haunted spaces in order to uncover what their ghost stories say about who we were, are, and will be.

by Colin Dickey via Longreads on October 5, 2016

When Dungeons & Dragons Set Off a ‘Moral Panic’

D&D attracted millions of players, along with accusations by some religious figures that the game fostered demon worship and a belief in witchcraft and magic.

by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on April 17, 2016

Eastern State Penitentiary, c. 1876.

A Brief History of Solitary Confinement

Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.

by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway via Longreads on February 2, 2016

Part of a portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Scandalous Legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Collector of Art and Men

Long before the gallery she built was famously robbed, Isabella Stewart Gardner was shocking 19th-century society with her disregard for convention.

by Lyz Lenz via Vice on December 3, 2015

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