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On Recipes: Changing Formats, Changing Use
Wayfinding through history and design of the cookbook.
by
Julia Skinner
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Mold
on
August 29, 2024
Thou Shalt Not
How a Hollywood marketing campaign was responsible for the Ten Commandments being displayed in public all across the country.
by
Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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June 19, 2024
Christian Science as Jewish Tradition
Why did so many American Jewish women find Christian Science appealing?
by
Noah Berlatsky
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The Revealer
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June 11, 2024
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Thomas Jefferson Fights for the Metric System
A story of math and political stasis.
by
Amir Alexander
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HNN
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June 5, 2024
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The Woman Who Helped Build the Christian Right
How one activist helped turn evangelical women into the backbone of right-wing conservatism.
by
Emily Suzanne Johnson
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Made By History
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June 3, 2024
Feeling Blessed
At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.
by
Christopher Hooks
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The Baffler
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May 8, 2024
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
by
Julian E. Zelizer
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The New Republic
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May 2, 2024
Do American Family Names Make Sense?
What's in a name? According to the "Dictionary of American Family Names," it depends.
by
Peter McClure
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OUPblog
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April 12, 2024
Remembering the Future
Climate change, colonization, and the Navajo Nation.
by
Hazel V. Carby
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London Review of Books
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March 27, 2024
Spreading the Bad News
Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?
by
Soong-Chan Rah
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Democracy Journal
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March 22, 2024
Dance, Revolution
George Balanchine and Martha Graham trade places.
by
Juliana Devaan
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The Drift
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March 12, 2024
When the FBI Feared the Catholic Left
Even if today's anti-war protestors couldn’t tell you who the Berrigan brothers were, the Catholic Left’s shadow looms large.
by
Arvin Alaigh
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Commonweal
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March 11, 2024
What Centuries of Common Law Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media
Today, tech platforms, including social media, are the new common carriers.
by
Ganesh Sitaraman
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Morgan Ricks
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LPE Project
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February 26, 2024
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How Mardi Gras Traditions Helped LGBTQ New Orleans Thrive
The celebrations created space for people to subvert gender norms, as New Orleans' LGBTQ communities built new traditions of their own.
by
Lily Lucas Hodges
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Made By History
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February 13, 2024
The Perfectionist Tradition
The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice.
by
William P. Jones
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Dissent
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February 6, 2024
Specters of the Mythic South
How plantation fiction fixed ghost stories to Black Americans.
by
Alena Pirok
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Southern Cultures
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January 24, 2024
Southern Hospitality? The Abstracted Labor of the Whole Pig Roast
Barbecue is a cornerstone of American cuisine, containing all of the contradictions of the country itself.
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Jessica Carbone
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Perspectives on History
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January 19, 2024
Blood Harmony
The far-flung tale of a murder song.
by
David Ramsey
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Oxford American
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December 5, 2023
Originalism and the Nature of Rights
When we try to recover the “original meaning” of constitutional amendments, we begin with deeply engrained premises about the nature of what we're looking for.
by
Jud Campbell
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The Panorama
on
November 27, 2023
Bad Facts, Bad Law
In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.
by
Duncan Hosie
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New York Review of Books
on
November 25, 2023
A Brief History of Onions in America
On ramps, xonacatl, skunk eggs and more.
by
Mark Kurlansky
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Literary Hub
on
November 9, 2023
Conservatives’ Favorite Legal Doctrine Crashes Into Reality
Originalism is all the rage on the right, but a gun case at the Supreme Court is exposing its absurdity—even to the conservative justices.
by
Matt Ford
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The New Republic
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November 9, 2023
The Politics of Trunk or Treat
Nostalgia, idealism, and the policing of childhood.
by
Paul Musgrave
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Systematic Hatreds
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October 31, 2023
'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' Turns 30
How the album pays homage to hip-hop's mythical and martial arts origins.
by
Marcus Evans
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The Conversation
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October 31, 2023
‘Hag of Misery’
The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.
by
Susan Faludi
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New York Review of Books
on
October 12, 2023
In 19th-Century Philadelphia, Female Medical Students Lobbied Hard for Mutual Aid
In a century-long tradition, students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania came together in solidarity to combat illness among their members.
by
Jessica Leigh Hester
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Nursing Clio
on
October 11, 2023
How Men Muscled Women Out of Surfing
Why is surfing still stuck in the 1960s when women have always done it?
by
Mindy Pennybacker
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The Atlantic
on
September 6, 2023
When Judaism Went à la Carte
On the 50th anniversary of "The Jewish Catalog."
by
Jane Eisner
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The Atlantic
on
July 28, 2023
Martha Graham’s Movement
A recent biography dives into the choreographer's role as both an artist and figure of early American modernism.
by
Emily Hawk
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The Nation
on
July 19, 2023
The Living Legacy of the Piedmont Blues
The music that grew out of Durham's tobacco manufacturing plants influenced some of the most widely recorded musicians of the last 65 years—and still does.
by
Marc Farinella
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The Assembly
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July 14, 2023
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