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Marijuana's Early History in the United States

Smokeable pot's proliferation in North America involves the Mexican Revolution, the transatlantic slave trade, and Prohibition.

by Barney Warf, Mark Hay via Vice on March 31, 2015

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Kaboom! 10 Facts About Firecrackers That Will Blow You Away

Firecrackers are essentially un-American, even though we associate them with our most deeply patriotic celebration, the Fourth of July.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on July 3, 2014

The Man of Signs page of Young's 1848 almanac.

Reading the Man of Signs, or, Farming in the Moon

What did the signs and the phases of the moon mean to moon farmers in the 1840s?

by Emily Pawley via Commonplace on July 1, 2014

Losing Ourselves in Holiday Windows

Nostalgia has always been harnessed or packaged to sell things.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on December 20, 2013

Food in America and American Foodways

Rachel Herrmann asks whether there’s such a thing as “American food.”

by Rachel B. Herrmann via The Junto on July 3, 2013

Is Corned Beef Really Irish?

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal.

by Shaylyn Esposito via Smithsonian on March 15, 2013

Flag in front of a church.

Iowa: A Pastor's Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit

A pastor's son reflects on his evangelical father's beliefs regarding politics in the pulpit.

by Randall Balmer via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 27, 2012

Candy corn.

Where Our Love/Hate Relationship With Candy Corn Comes From

Halloween's most iconic candy (and its most polarizing) used to be a year-round snack. Then came the candy corn explosion.

by Samira Kawash via The Atlantic on October 30, 2010

Henry Ford, the Wayside Inn, and the Problem of 'History Is Bunk'

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.

by Roger Butterfield via Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society on June 1, 1965

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