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Our Strange Addiction
The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.
by
Benjamin Breen
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
March 15, 2021
How War Made the Cigarette
A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
via
The New Republic
on
September 25, 2019
Shaman's Revenge?
The birth, death and afterlife of our romance with tobacco.
by
Mike Jay
via
mikejay.net
on
January 1, 2019
Puff, Puff? Pass!: The Anti-Tobacco Writings of Margaret Woods Lawrence
Reformers linked tobacco use to a deterioration of social and familial values, a habit that disrupted the sanctity of the home.
by
Brian Fehler
via
Commonplace
on
April 8, 2025
Black Earth
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved—and is reclaiming his family’s story and the soil beneath his feet.
by
Christina Cooke
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
November 25, 2024
William & Mary's Nottoway Quarter: The Political Economy of Institutional Slavery and Settler Colonialism
The school was funded by colonial taxation of tobacco grown by forced labor on colonized Indian lands.
by
Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
,
Buck Woodard
via
Commonplace
on
January 3, 2023
The Black Family, Landownership, and Tobacco Culture
In the US, where less than one percent of the land is owned by black people, Black landownership has historically been a means to challenge economic oppression.
by
Kiana Knight
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 14, 2022
Pinhookers and Pets: Inventing the Non-Smoker
Who needs a public health system when sickness is a personal failure?
by
Jackson Lears
via
London Review of Books
on
February 18, 2021
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Health Risks of Vaping: Lessons From the Battle With Big Tobacco
Like cigarette manufacturers decades ago, e-cigarette makers have pitched their products as fun and safe. But nobody knows what the risks are.
via
Retro Report
on
November 17, 2020
Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality
When regulators dictate who grows a cash crop, they can spread the wealth—or help the rich get richer.
by
Sarah Milov
via
The Atlantic
on
October 5, 2019
How Jamestown Abandoned a Utopian Vision and Embraced Slavery
In 1619, wealthy investors overthrew the charter that guaranteed land for everyone.
by
Paul Musselwhite
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
August 15, 2019
How a Minor League Pitcher Turned a Dugout Conversation Into the Legend That Is Big League Chew
The inventor, who baked the first batch of the iconic gum 40 years ago, talks about the genesis of an American rite of passage.
by
Jake Malooley
,
Rob Nelson
via
Esquire
on
July 10, 2019
How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery
What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.
by
R. L. Martens
,
BII Robertson
via
Edge Effects
on
March 28, 2019
A Family From High Plains
Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by
Nick Martin
via
Splinter
on
August 2, 2018
Smoking, Women’s Rights, and a Really Great Fake Bar
The lady smoking caper of 1908.
by
Livius Drusus
via
The Appendix
on
February 7, 2014
Parallel Lives
King George and George Washington, featured in an upcoming exhibit.
by
Julie Miller
via
Library of Congress Blog
on
February 6, 2025
How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War
The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage.
by
Bronwen Everill
via
Smithsonian
on
June 27, 2024
Their Wealth Was Built On Slavery. Now a New Fortune Lies Underground.
In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?
by
Julie Zauzmer Weil
via
Retropolis
on
December 1, 2022
The Capitalist Transformations of the Countryside
Centuries of capitalism saw the global countryside ruthlessly converted into cheap commodities. But at what cost?
by
Sven Beckert
via
Aeon
on
October 6, 2022
Slavery's Revolutions In Louisiana
Comparing the results of two Louisiana slave rebellions 20 years apart and what that meant for the continuation of slavery within the Deep South.
by
Patrick Luck
via
Age of Revolutions
on
June 27, 2022
The Moment That Changed Colonial-Indigenous Relations Forever
How a massacre on March 22, 1622 irrevocably shaped relations between Indigenous Americans and English colonists.
by
Peter C. Mancall
via
TIME
on
March 22, 2022
Selling Menthol: On Keith Wailoo’s “Pushing Cool”
A history of the menthol cigarette and its effects on Black people.
by
Vesper North
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
October 31, 2021
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery
This historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.
by
Gerald Horne
via
The Nation
on
October 5, 2021
New England Kept Slavery, But Not Its Profits, At a Distance
Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told.
by
Mark A. Peterson
via
Aeon
on
May 3, 2021
Graves of Enslaved People Discovered on Founding Father's Delaware Plantation
A signee of the U.S. Constitution, John Dickinson enslaved as many as 59 men, women and children at one time.
by
Nora McGreevy
via
Smithsonian
on
March 26, 2021
The Jesuits and Slavery
Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people.
by
Adam Rothman
via
Journal Of Jesuit Studies
on
December 15, 2020
Flu Fallout
A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 22, 2020
DNA Analysis From Colonial Delaware Skeletons Reveals Beginning Of American Slave Trade
A new DNA study of skeletons from a farmstead on the Delaware frontier has revealed key information about the early transatlantic slave trade.
by
Kristina Killgrove
via
Forbes
on
December 19, 2019
The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.
by
Ibram X. Kendi
via
The Atlantic
on
August 20, 2019
George Washington's Biggest Battle? With his Dentures, Made From Hippo Ivory and Maybe Slaves' Teeth
The British were a pain, to be sure, but what really caused him trouble were his teeth.
by
William Maloney
via
The Conversation
on
July 2, 2019
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